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كتاب الافادة المقنعة في قراءات الائمة الاربعة.
Kitāb al-Ifādah al-muqniʻah fī qirāʼāt al-aʼimmah al-arbaʻah.
1788
A work on the Koran readings of the four imāms, Ibn Muḥayṣ al-Makkī, 123 [740/1], al-Aʻmash al-Kūfī, 148 [765/6], al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī 21-110 [641/2-728] and Yaḥyá al-Yazīdi.
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- Related Name
- قيرواني، احمد بن احمد، active 18th century
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 618H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A work on the Koran readings of the four imāms, Ibn Muḥayṣ al-Makkī, 123 [740/1], al-Aʻmash al-Kūfī, 148 [765/6], al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī 21-110 [641/2-728] and Yaḥyá al-Yazīdi.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب الافادة المقنعة في قراءات الائمة الاربعة.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-Ifādah al-muqniʻah fī qirāʼāt al-aʼimmah al-arbaʻah.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 618H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc2r36v8185
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1788
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 114 leaves : paper ; 227 x 163 (180 x 115-120) mm. bound to 206 x 162 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1238.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Marginal notes and glosses. Before the colophon the copyist states that he is a pupil of the author. Corrections throughout the text.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 14 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 20 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (three crescents--two different types) ; MS in fair condition, staining throughout, uneven edges.
- Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday 22 Jumādá al-Thānī 1202 in Tūnis by Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Saqāniṣī[?] al-Qayrawānī al-Qurayshī (fol. 113b).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم صلى الله على رسوله محمد الحمد لله الذي ارشد خادم کتابه العزيز هاشم بن محمد المغربى ... من بعض كلمات القران المختلف فيها بين الائمة الاربعة المذكورين في الافادة المقنعة ...
- Colophon: وکان الفراغ من نسخه يوم الخميس من اثنين وعشرين في جماد[ى] الثاني سنة عامين وماتان [مائتين] والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة وازکى التحية ورضي الله تعالى عن اصحاب رسوﻟ[ﻪ] اجمعين وعن التابعين وتابعيهم باحسان الى يوم الدين
- Binding Note
- Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging. Tan paper pastedown. Not sewn. Binding possibly re-used as it is considerably smaller than the text.
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- File Count
- 238
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- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/95f46019-0f06-4f52-93e3-5a056e5f8b4a/manifest