Item Summary

A collection of four works on the various readings of the Qurʼān and a short fāʼidah on the letter alif.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب التجريد لبغية المريد ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Tajrīd li-bughyat al-murīd ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 197L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc44558s406
Publisher
[14th century]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1300-1399
Format
Manuscript
Extent
130 leaves : paper ; 238 x 165 (180-185 x 120) mm bound to 238 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement dated 1294 with seal impression "al-Sayyid Aḥmad Bayāzīd" (fol. 1a), written signature of same (fol. 2a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2094.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 2a-77b: Kitāb al-Tajrīd li-bughyat al-murīd / taṣnīf Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr ibn Abī Saʻīd al-Qurashī al-Ṣaqalī. Incomplete at end.
2. fol. 78a-117b: al-Qaṣīdah al-mulaqqabah bi-al-Shāṭibīyah / taṣnīf Abī Muḥamad al-Qāsim ibn Firruh ibn Aḥmad ibn Khalaf al-Ruʻaynī al-Shāṭibī. Also titled Ḥirz al-amānī wa-wajh al-tahānī. Following the colophon are a few selections commenting or expanding on the text, possibly including a fragment of al-Samarqandī's Kitāb al-Mabsūṭ (fol. 116a-117a) and a table (fol. 117b).
3. fol. 118a-128a: al-Qaṣīdah al-mulaqqabah bi-ʻAqlīyat atrāb al-qaṣāyid fī asná al-maqāṣid / naẓm Abī al-Qāsim ibn Firruh ibn Khalaf ibn Aḥmad al-Ruʻaynī thumma al-Shāṭibī. Versification of al-Dānī's al-Muqniʻ on the writing of the text of the Qur'an.
4. fol. 128b: [Fāʼidah] On the origin of the letter alif perhaps based on Abū Muḥammad Makkī's Kitāb al-Amālī.
5. fol. 129a-129b: [ʻUmdat al-mufīd wa-ʻuddat al-mujīd] / ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Sakhāwī. An ode on the chanting of the Qurʼan.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from title page of first work (fol. 2a).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Remnant of label on spine. Inscriptions (fol. 2a). Insert. Title of first work appears on upper edge of text block. Folio 77 is written in the same hand as the first text, although it isn't clear that is is part of that text.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 130 + i ; collation note (fol. 116a) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17-21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; overwriting and abbreviations in red ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
Origin: [al-Shāṭibīyah] Copy completed 25 Shawwāl 734 (fol. 116a).
Incipit: [كتاب التجريد] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... قال الشيخ المقرئ ابو القاسم عبد الرحمن ... الحمد لله العالم بمقادير الامور المطلع على مضمرات الصدور السابق ... -- [قصيدة الشاطبية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال ابو محمد القاسم بن فيره ... بدات بسم الله في النظم اولا * تبارك رحمانا رحيما ومويلا -- [عقلية اتراب] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال الشيخ الفقيه الامام المقرئ ابو القسم بن فروه ... الحمد لله موصولا كما امرا مباركا طيبا -- [عمدة المفيد] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسير ولا يعسر قال الشيخ ... علم الدين ابو الحسن على بن محمد السخاوي رحمه الله يا من يروم تلاوة القران * ويرود شأ والايمة الاتقان ...
Colophon: [قصيدة الشاطبية] تمت بحمد الله وعونه وصلوته على محمد عبده ورسوله في خمس العشرين من شهر الله شوال من شهور سنة اربع وثلثون وسبعمايه -- [عقلية اتراب] تمت بحمد الله وعونه وصلواته على محمد واله وسلم تسليما كثرا الى يوم الدين والحمد لله واحده -- [عمدة المفيد] تم بحمد الله ومنه والحمد لله وبعده موسى عليه السلام بالعبرانيه او بالسريانيه ...
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Flap lined with yellow and black marbled paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Shāṭibī, al-Qāsim ibn Fīrruh 1144-1194—Ḥirz al-amānī wa-wajh al-tahānī
Qurʼan—Readings—Early works to 1800
Alif (The Arabic letter)—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
276

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/71977f37-e100-481d-a1e7-d5a54e3f0eb5/manifest