Item Summary

Versification of al-Dānī's al-Taysīr fī al-qirāʼāt al-sabʼ.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا حرز الاماني الشهير بالشاطبية / للامام ابي محمد القاسم بن فره الشاطبي.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Ḥirz al-amānī al-shahīr bi-al-Shāṭibīyah / lil-Imām Abī Muḥammad al-Qāsim ibn Firruh al-Shāṭibī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 198L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcv979vg15f
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1645
Extent
135 leaves : paper ; 194 x 125 (120 x 70) mm bound to 194 x 126 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1198.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. (i)a).
Several folios are replaced by a later hand. Inscription on upper pastedown giving meanings of the word istiʻārāt. "Li-Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī shāriḥ al-Bukhārī" on folio 1a with marginal inscriptions. Table (fol.135a). "D F B 1" (fol. (i)b). Persian? and Arabic inscriptions and three magic squares (fol. 136a-b and lower pastedown).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 135 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 9 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (later replacement page only: three faces-in-the-moon) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Friday 14 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1055 (fol. 134b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم بدأت ببسم الله في نظم اولا * تبارك رحمانا رحيما وموئلا
Colophon: تم كتاب الشاطبي فى الرابع عشر من شهر ربيع الاول فى اليوم الجمعه سنه 1055 م م م م
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and decorative blind-tooled edging. Spine replaced. Endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
284

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/89f0d74b-41b3-46ea-b61f-a4df4572cb63/manifest