Item Summary

A short treatise on the orthography of the Qurʼan based on the supplement to Shifāʼ al-qurrāʼ, a work on the same subject by Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Khuwārizmī.

Descriptive Information

Title
المهذب في الهجاء من ذيل شفاء القراء.
Transliterated Title
al-Muhadhdhab fī al-hijāʼ min dhayl Shifāʼ al-qurrāʼ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 634H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcvd66w959z
Publisher
[19th century]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
11 leaves : paper ; 216 x 163 (165 x 90) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1248.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 9b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 11 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents, with roman-alphabet script "VG" and "Tre lune") ; MS in good condition.
Origin: MS is from XIXth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي الحمد لله الذي جعلنا من المتبعين لا من المبتد والصلاة علي رسولنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين اعلم ان ابتاع مصحف الامام عثمان رضي الله عنه في هجائه ...
Colophon: تمت النسخة المهذب في الهجاء من ذيل شفاء القراء والحمد لله اولا وآخرا وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد خاتم النبيين والمرسلين وعلى آله وصحابته اجمعين. امين م
Binding Note
Later covering in marbled paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan—Orthography
Qurʼan—Language, style
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
32

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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