Item Summary

A work on the various readings of the seven early Koran readers.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب التيسير في علم القراءات.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Taysīr fī ʻilm al-qirāʼāt.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 603H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc7m01bx319
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1100-1199
Format
Manuscript
Extent
118 leaves : paper ; 240 x 148 (200 x 120) mm. bound to 236 x 152 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1191.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, pp. 487/8.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 94.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 579-89.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 84.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 550.
A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 41/2.
Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 1387.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from inside of upper cover.
A few marginal notes. MS incomplete at beginning and end. Title on lower edge of text block Tajwīd qirāʼat [sabʻah?].
Collation: Paper ; fol. 118 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; MS in poor condition; worm-eaten and mended. Text illegible in a few places, especially beginning and end.
Origin: MS probably belongs to the Xllth century.
Incipit:عشر وماية وابن ذکوان [هو عبدالله بن احمد]
Ending: ... ابو عمر ووحفص وابن ذکوان على الاول بالالف
Binding Note
Later covering in double layer of re-used paper. Re-used manuscript text visible inside covers.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan—Readings—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
244

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/854e9545-152a-4325-8178-85403e1c122c/manifest