Item Summary

A work on the grammatical analysis of the difficult passages in the Koran. The work is otherwise known as Iʻrāb mushkilāt al-Qurʼān and also Mushkil gharīb al-Qurʼān.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الاعراب القرآن / ابي محمد مكي ابي طالب القيسي القزي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Iʻrāb al-Qurʼān / Abī Muḥammad Makkī Abī Ṭālib al-Qaysī al-Qazzī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 641H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc8s45qm47b
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1100-1199
Format
Manuscript
Extent
209 leaves : paper ; 200 x 138-145 (165 x 115-120) mm bound to 200 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Signature and two seal impressions (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1257.
Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), II, p. 582.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 560.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 211.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 703.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Section 1 ends on fol. 111b; section 2 begins on folio 112a with "Mushkil Sūrat Maryam". Incomplete at end.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 209 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Written in Maghribī script, folios 1-8 and 110 added later and written in generic script with vowel signs ; rubricated ; MS in fair condition, mended pages. Some staining and repairs affecting legibility.
Origin: Probably from the XIIth century.
Incipit: اما بعد حمد الله والثناء عليه بما هو اهله والصلاه على محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم وعلى اهله فاني رأيت افضل علم ...
Ending: تم السفر الاول من مشكل الاعراب القران بحمد الله وعونه واحسانه ومنه -- وحذفت لسکونها وسکون الواو بعدها
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue and gray marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Headbands
Autographs
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
430

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d95729c1-00ce-411b-90ac-f2737fec4a53/manifest