Item Summary

A work on the various readings of the Koran, being a kind of commentary on al-Shāṭibīyah. Primarily in the form of tables attributing readings to specific Qurʼanic scholars.

Descriptive Information

Title
الکتاب المبسوط.
Transliterated Title
al-Kitāb al-mabsūṭ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 609H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc76537c32z
Publisher
28 Shawwāl 991 [November 14, 1583]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1583
Format
Manuscript
Extent
50 leaves : paper ; 201 x 150 (159 x 108) mm. bound to 207 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1204.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 365/6.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page for part 2 (fol. 4a).
Marginal summaries. Inscriptions (fol. 1a). Table of abbreviations for the Qurʼanic scholars cited in the text and a chart of their scholarly antecedents (fol. 2b-3a). Table of contents for al-qism 2 (fol. 3b). Notes continue after the colophon and on the subsequent folio.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 50 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled in black with most pages consisting of an inner grid of red boxes 4 x 7 or 6 x 10.
Description: Written in black and red ink ; MS in good condition; stained.
Origin: According to colophon copied Monday 28 Shawwāl 991 by ʻAlī Nūr al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad Badr al-Dīn ibn al-Miʻmār (fol. 49a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وعليه توكلي هو حسبي وكفي وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد الحمد لله الذي انطق السنت جملة القران بتذكار تكرار بيان بنيان القران العظيم ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابته نهار الاثنين ثامن عشرين شهر شوال المبارك من شهور سنة احد[ى] وتسعين وتسعمائة على يد اضعف العباد الفقير الحقير الى الله تعالى علي نورالدين بن محمد بدر الدين بن المعمار غفرالله له ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين اجمعين امين والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسليما
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped circular motif on covers. Blind-tooled edging on covers and flap. Purple paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Shāṭibī, al-Qāsim ibn Fīrruh 1144-1194—Ḥirz al-amānī wa-wajh al-tahānī
Qurʼan—Readings—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
111

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c11106a8-b95d-4f2c-a1bc-dfb99c058133/manifest