Item Summary

A work on the merit attached to the recitation of the Koran, of the regard due to the men who hand it down, and of the rules to be observed in reading, teaching and transcribing the sacred book.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب التبيان في آداب حملة القرآن / تأليف محيي الدين يحيى بن شرف بن مرا بن حسين بن محمد النووي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Tibyān fī ādāb ḥamalat al-Qurʼān / taʼlīf Muḥyī al-Dīn Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf ibn Marrā ibn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Nawawī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 596H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc5138jr503
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1499
Format
Manuscript
Extent
(3), 84, 5 leaves : paper ; 216 x 135 (142 x 75) mm. bound to 215 x 142 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Mālikī dated 1286 and al-Sayyd Aḥmad ibn al-Sayyid Amīn ibn Quṭāybah (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1209.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 183/4.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, pp. 180, 536.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1206².
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1636.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 614-20.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes and glosses. On three folios after the text are a calendar-based numerology chart in Persian, an account from Abī al-ʻAbbās about Jews in Syria and a short inscription about the concept of plague being a blessing (fol. 83b-84a)
Collation: Paper ; fol. iii + 84 + 5 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (later endpaper only: crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: MS probably belongs to the XVth century.
Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الکريم المنان ذي الطول والفضل حسان الذى هدانا للايمان ... اما بعد فان الله سبحانه وتعالى من على هذه الامه زادها الله تعالى ...
Colophon: قال مصنفه رحمه الله فرغت من جمعه صبيحة الخميس الثالث من شهر ربيع الآخر من سنة ست وستين وستمائة 666 والحمد لله رب العالمين. م
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Yellow paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan—Early works to 1800
Qurʼan—Recitation—Early works to 1800
Qurʼan—Study and teaching—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
197

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/614228e8-5ff4-48a2-8c7b-e777dd55c7d2/manifest