Item Summary

Commentary on the Shāṭibīyah, a versification of the Taysīr li-ḥifẓ madhāhib al-qurrāʼ al-sabʻah by ʻUthmān ibn Saʻīd al-Dānī (d. 444/1053), on the readings of the Qurʼān. According to the end of this copy, the commentary was completed on 21 Rajab 884 [October 8, 1479] (fol. 103b).

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح الشاطبية / للسيوطي
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ al-Shāṭibīyah / lil-Suyūṭī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 482Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/70795b269
Publisher
[ 1572]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1572
Format
Manuscript
Extent
104 leaves: paper ; 176 x 133 (115 x 98) mm. bound to 177 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Several ownership statements on fol. 3a, signed Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad(?) ; ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn al-Shaykh Ḥasan al-Bayṭār, dated 24 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1260 [May 13, 1844] ; ʻAbd al-Razzāq Ibn al-Shaykh Ḥasan ---? al-Sirāj(?). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 202
Iqbāl, A. al-Sharqāwī. Maktabat al-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī, no. 401
Shaybānī, M. Dalīl makhṭūṭāt al-Suyūṭī, no. 26
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 3a. The same title appears on the lower edge of the text block.
19 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. Light cream glazed paper with laid and chain lines visible. The first 13 fol. are later additions and replacements. Table of contents on fol. 1b-2b. Explanation of the abbreviations used in the text on fol. 3b. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits a fol. between fol. 65 and 66). Inscription in Roman script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "AUT S 74".
Collation: Paper, fol. 104 ; ii (fol. 1-2 in the modern foliation ; smaller European paper, with table of contents) 1¹⁰ (+1, before fol. 3 ; later replacements on European glazed paper) 2-10¹⁰ 11² ; catchword on the verso of leaf 1, 2, 3, 8, 10 of each quire; most quires are numbered using Arabic numerals (see fol. 34a).
Copy completed on Saturday end of Shawwāl 979 by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Hādī al-Ṣanfūrī al-Shāfiʻī al-Qādirī in the Madrasat Abī ʻUmar, for the Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, whose grandfather is known as Marzanāt (colophon, fol. 103b).
Incipit (fol. 4b): الحمد لله رافع اهل كتابه واشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده لا شريك له تعظيما لجنابه ... هذا شرح لطيفة مزجته بقصيدة الامام ابى القاسم الشاطبى فى القرآات
Explicit (fol. 103b): توفى الشيخ يوم الاحد ثامن عشرى جمادى الاخره سنة تسعين وخمسمايه رضى الله عنه وعنابه قال مولفه سيدنا الشيخ ... جلال الدين ... فرغت هذا الشرح يوم الخميس حادى عشرى رجب سنة اربع وثمانين وثمانمايه احسن الله عقباها بمنه وكرمه والحمد لله
Binding Note
Yellow paper pasted on paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Golden brown spine and fore-edge flap. Paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Shāṭibī, al-Qāsim ibn Fīrruh 1144-1194—Ḥirz al-amānī wa-wajh al-tahānī
شاطبي، القاسم بن فيره—حرز الاماني ووجه التهاني
Qurʼan—Readings—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
110

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/66c488f2-b895-4b70-bda0-190b34423859/manifest