Item Summary

A treatise on the readings of the Koran, comparing the seven readings which have been handed down singly and which do not conform to the common usage of speech and analogy.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الاعلان بالمختار من روايات القرآن في القراءات السبع / تصنيف ابي القسم عبد الرحمن بن عبد المجيد بن اسماعيل بن عثمن بن يوسف بن الحسين بن حفص بن الصفراوي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Iʻlān bi-al-mukhtār min riwāyāt al-Qurʼān fī al-qirāʼāt al-sabʻ / taṣnīf Abī al-Qasim [sic] ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Majīd ibn Ismāʻīl ibn ʻUthman [sic] ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥifṣ ibn al-Ṣafrāwī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 611H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc9s161h80k
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1200-1299
Extent
238 pages : paper ; 187 x 137 (150-160 x 105-111) mm bound to 188 x 136 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1207.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 365.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 1a.
Evidently the last folio, containing the closing words of the colophon, is missing. The first two folios were supplied by a different hand. The title appears on the lower edge of the text block. Two inscriptions on the two folios after colophon.
Collation: Paper ; p. 238 ; modern pagination in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 22 lines per page.
Description: Vowel signs ; lacking some iʻjām diacritical marks ; MS in good condition, mended.
Origin: Probably from the XIII century. MS is rare.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم باب ذکر مذاهب القرآ في الوقف علي مرسوم الخط وبيان ما احتلفوا فيه من ذلك اعلم وفقنا الله واياك ان الذين وردعتهم الوفق علي مرسوم الخط خمسة وهم نافع وابو عمرو الكوفيون عاصم وحمزه والكساي ...
Colophon: قال الشيخ الفقيه الامام العالم الکامل الحافظ القايم بامر التنزيل جمال الدين مفتي المسلمين اوحد المتکلمين قدوة اهل عصره جمال عهده ابو القسم عبدالرحمن بن الشيخ الاجل ابي محمد عبدالمجيد بن الصفراوي المصنف وفقه الله
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind- and gold-stamped and tooled circular design with pendants and decorative edging. Leather doublures. Multi-colored endbands. Repairs to the spine.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
246

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/0db88b2d-cec4-4097-a364-478e6f4cf1da/manifest