Item Summary

An important work on the various readings of the Koran. The work is otherwise known as Muntahá al-amānī wa-al-masarrāt fī ʻulūm al-qirāʼāt.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب اتحاف فضلاء البشر في القراءات الاربعة عشر / احمد بن محمد بن احمد بن محمد الشهير بالبناء.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Itḥāf fuḍalāʼ al-bashar fī al-qirāʼāt al-arbaʻat ʻashar / Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-shahīr bi-al-Bannāʼ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 615H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcmw22vh10g
Publisher
1 Ramaḍān 1092 [September 14, 1681]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1681
Format
Manuscript
Extent
(2), 368, (1) leaves : paper ; 206 x 152 (150 x 100) mm. bound to 206 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures of ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Aḥmad al-Anṣārī al-Khazrajī al-Ḥanafī ; seal impression reading "Yā Karīm" with date [1]117; ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm [...] al-Ḥanafī dated 1163 with his tughra; Miḥḍār ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥamad al-Saqqāf (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1235.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 91.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes and glosses. The work was composed 1085 [1674]. Inscription about the author (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 368 + (1) ; quires signed: 1-37 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied gharrat Ramaḍān 1092 (fol. 368a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وهو حسنى ونعم الوكيد الحمد لله الذي جمع ببديع حکمته شتات العلوم باوجز كتاب ...
Colophon: وافق الفراغ من کتابة هذه النسخة المبارکة في غرة رمضان المعظم قدره سنة اثنين وتسعين والف والحمد لله حمدا کثيرا طيبا مبارکا حمدا يوافي نعمه ويکافي مزيده وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وازواجه وذريته واهل بيته کما ينبغي وکمايجب من الازل الى الابد عدد معلوماته وعلينا معهم والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather with red leather spine and flap connector. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Marbled paper pastedowns. Not sewn.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan—Readings—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
tuǧras
Autographs
Stamps
Blind tooled bindings
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
754

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/04c70b30-e08a-480a-9204-f2892e413655/manifest