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Item Summary
A homiletical work in sixty chapters based on the Qurʼan and the traditions. Followed by four works on the recensions of the Qurʼan by early scholars: ʻĀṣim, Abū Bakr, Ḥafṣ, Abū ʻAmr, Abū Saʻīd (known as Warsh), and Qālūn.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- حدائق الحقائق.
- Transliterated Title
- Ḥadāʼiq al-ḥaqāʼiq.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1064H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcg158bv971
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1626
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 187 leaves : paper ; 204 x 145 (150-155 x 90) mm bound to 204 x 152 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1904.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 20.
- Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 1925.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Contents
- 1. fol. [i]a-1a: [Inscriptions]
- 2. fol. 1b-99a: Ḥadāʼiq al-ḥaqāʼiq.
- 3. fol. 99b: Hādhā Sharḥ duʻāʼ ṣalawāt.
- 4. fol. 100b-128a: [On the qirāʼāt of ʻĀṣim, Abū Bakr, and Ḥafṣ]
- 5. fol. 128b bis-161a: Kitāb fīhi mufradāt Abī ʻAmr fī Kitāb Allāh al-ʻAzīz.
- 6. fol. 161b-181a: [On the qirāʼāt of Abū Saʻīd, known as Warsh]
- 7. fol. 181b-186a: Hādhā Riwāyat Qālūn.
- 8. fol. 186a-187a: [Inscriptions]
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from introduction (fol. 1b).
- A few marginal notes.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 187 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 19 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (anchor, countermark with roman-letter initials) ; MS in good condition.
- Origin: According to colophon copy completed Tuesday 27 Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 1035 in Qalʻa Astūrghūn (fol. 99a).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام علي خير خلقه محمد ... هذا مختصر جمعته من کتاب الله وسنة رسوله ...
- Colophon: تمت الکتاب بعون الله وحسن توفيقه يوم الاثنين في سبع وعشرين من شهور شهر ربيع الاخر في قلعة استورغون سنة خمس وثلاثين والف تم
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Qurʼan—Readings—Early works to 1800
- Sufism—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- ʻĀṣim ibn Abī al-Nujūd -745
- Qāriʼ, Shuʻbah ibn ʻAyyāsh 713 or 714-809
- Ḥafṣ ibn Sulaymān approximately 709-796 or 797
- Abū ʻAmr ibn al-ʻAlāʼ 689 or 690-770 or 771
- Warsh al-Miṣrī, ʻUthmān ibn Saʻīd 728 or 729-812 or 813
- Qālūn, ʻĪsá 737 or 738-835
- Watermarks
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 390
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5f86fe39-4768-47fc-a67a-e2e112c49b2a/manifest

















