Item Summary

A treatise on the ten traditional readings of the Koran. In the margins is Mutammam al-ʻashr li-itmām al-thalāthah al-ʻasharah by Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá al-Qasṭamūnī.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب البدور الزاهرة في القرآات العشرة المتواترة / تأليف عمر الانصاري ابن قاسم.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Budūr al-zāhirah fī al-qirāʼāt al-ʻasharah al-mutawātirah / taʼlīf ʻUmar al-Anṣārī ibn Qāsim.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 203L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcgq67k4299
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1835
Extent
140 leaves : paper ; 245 x 175 (145 x 85) mm bound to 254 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1225.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 30.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. Inscription (fol. 1a). Smudged title on lower edge of text block. Inserts.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 140 ; 14 quires ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page ; diagonal ruling for marginal notes.
Description: Rubricated ; paper tinted yellow ; watermarks (eagle; coat-of-arms with a lion) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 1251 (fol. 140a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد ... الحمد لله الذي علم الانسان ما لم يعلم ... وبعد فان بعض اصدقائى وفقهم الله تعالى لما يجب ويرضى سألنى ان اجمع كتابا فى القراأت العشر وان اذكر كل مسئلة فى محلها ...
Colophon.: تمت بعون الله سنة 1251
Binding Note
Later covering of thickened paper with block-pressed design. Not sewn.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
300

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/98392792-79ef-46d5-9158-0b6404307d82/manifest