Item Summary

A versification of al-Taysīr fī al-qirāʼāt al-sabʻ, a work on the readings of the Qurʼān by ʻUthmān ibn Saʻīd al-Dānī al-Qurṭubī (d. 444/1053). The versification is commonly known as al-Shāṭibīyah.

Descriptive Information

Title
القصيدة الملقبة بحرز الاماني ووجه التهاني
Transliterated Title
al-Qaṣīdah al-mulaqqabah bi-Ḥirz al-amānī wa-wajh al-tahānī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 606H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcmg74qx800
Publisher
[ 1415]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1415
Format
Manuscript
Extent
71 leaves: paper ; 270 x 178 (187 x 123) mm. bound to 270 x 178 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement signed Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá al-Birqāwī al-ʻĀṣī al-Ḥanbalī, dated Damascus, 15 D[hū al-Ḥijjah?] 55, with seal impression dated 1255 H. [1839-40] (fol. 70a). Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1197
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 409 (12/I) ; SI, 725/I
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
Marginal and interlinear ḥāshiyah, particularly on the beginning of the text. Several definitions, including a definition of tajwīd and tashdīd, and seven lines of poetry in lām-alif on fol. 1a. On fol. 1b, Ghāyat al-Umniyah fī sharḥ rumūz al-Shāṭibī (twelve verses of poetry in lām-alif) by Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Ayyūb al-Ṣiddīq al-Turkistānī. On fol. 2a, short text on meteorological prognostication according to the day the month starts with, entitled "Bāb ʻadad ayyām al-jumʻah".
Layout: 9 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; medium cream paper with laid and chain lines visible.
Origin: Copy completed on 20 Jumādá al-Awwal 818(?) by Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān ibn ʻUthmān (colophon, fol. 70b).
Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام الحافظ المقري ابو القاسم بن فيره بن خلف بن محمد الرعيني ثمّ الشاطبي رضي الله عنه بداتُ ببسم الله في النظم اولًا
Explicit: وتبدي على اصحابه نفحاتها بغير تناهٍ زرنباً وقر نفلا والحمد لله على افضاله وانعامه والتوفيق لاكماله واتمامه وعلى نبيه محمد سيدنا افضل صلوته وسلامه تمت الكتاب بحمد الله الملك الوهاب
Binding Note
Type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather over paper pasteboards. Both covers have a large central blind tooled medallion, encompassing a twelve-pointed star with small dots filling the compartments defined by the star and circular edge. Spine and edges repaired. The pastedowns consist of re-used pieces of paper with inscriptions. Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Dānī, ʻUthmān ibn Saʻīd 981 or 982-1053—Taysīr fī al-qirāʼāt al-sabʻ—Versification
Qurʼan—Readings—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Autographs
Stamps
Headbands

Physical Characteristics

File Count
150

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b32104fc-3b0f-43ce-a19c-af912807191d/manifest