Descriptive Information

Title

كتاب التيسر

Transliterated Title

Kitāb al-Tayassur.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 213Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/sq87bx20m

Publisher

Baghdad, [1333]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1333

Format

Manuscript

Extent

ii, 45, iii leaves: paper ; 215 x 155 (165 x 110) mm. bound to 225 x 170 mm.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 189

Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 407 (2/1) ; SI

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from colophon (fol. 45b).

Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in very clear medium small naskh in black ink with use of red; the text is vocalized. Dark cream paper with laid lines visible. Marginal annotations apparently by the same hand as the main text. The text was collated. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including a prayer with magical script. Wear; edges of leaves wanting; loose leaves.

Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Qirāʼāt 8". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 948".

Origin: According to colophon, copied by Abū ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn al-shaykh al-imām al-marḥūm al-maghfūr Muḥammad ibn al-shaykh al-marḥūm Abī al-Fatḥ ibn Muḥammad al-Iṣfahānī, on 21 or 11 Muḥarram 734 [Sept.-Oct. 1333] in Baghdād, in the Ribāṭ al-shaykh Nūr al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān (fol. 45b). Note on the margin of the colophon stating that the copy was made on the copy of al-shaykh Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-ḥāfiẓ al-sharīf al-Samarqandī and that it was collated with the Shaṭibīyah (this last collation is dated beginning of Shawwāl 736 [May 1336] and signed Nūr al-Iṣfahānī).

Copyist: Abū ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ ibn Muḥammad al-Iṣfahānī.

Incipit: بسم ... رب اعن بكرمك قرات على الفقيه المقرى ابى داود مفترح(؟) بن ابى القاسم بن حاج(؟) الاموى مولى لهم فقلت له قلتم رضى الله عنكم قرات على ابى عمرو عثمان

Explicit: فى جمع ذلك استغنآء عنها فاعلم ذلك موفقّا لطريق الحق ومنهاج الصواب ان شاء الله تعالى وبالله التوفيق وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله الطيبين الطاهرين وسلم تسليما كثيرا تم كتاب التيسر

Binding Note

Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower cover and flap. Silver tooling.

Discovery Information

Subject

Qurʼan—Reading—History—10th century—Sources

Qurʼan—Reading—History—11th century—Sources

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

51

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/eb8c9d28-d0c7-4e72-87fb-5e3f4d8121fa/manifest

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