Item Summary

Commentary on Ḥirz al-amānī wa-wajh al-tahānī, also known as al-Shāṭibīyah, a versification by al-Shāṭibī (d. 590/1194) of al-Taysīr li-ḥifẓ madhāhib al-qurrāʼ al-sabʻah by ʻUthmān al-Dānī (d. 444/1053).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب اللاءلي الفريدة في شرح القصيدة / تأليف الشيخ العالم العالم شيخ القرا الامام الجعبري
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Lāʼalī al-farīdah fī sharḥ al-qaṣīdah / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-ʻālim al-ʻālam shaykh al-qurrā al-imām al-Jaʻbarī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2478Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/jh343v929
Publisher
[ 1454]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1454
Format
Manuscript
Extent
196 leaves: paper ; 265 x 175 (190 x 125) mm. bound to 270 x 185 mm.
Provenance
From the books of Aḥmad Najīb Ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir (ownership statement dated [12]71 H. on fol. 3a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 197
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 3a). On the left margin, note: "Hādhā sharḥ al-Fāsī wa-hādhā al-ʻunwān khaṭā" (crossed out).
Incipit: يقول الفقير الى رحمة ربّه المستغفر من وزره وذنبه ... احمده حمد مومن موقن ... اما بعد فانّ جماعة من القرا المشتغلين بقصيدة الشيخ الامام ابى القسم الشاطبى ... قال الشيخ الامام العالم الحافظ المقىء ابو القسم بن فره الرعينى ثم الشاطلى رحمه الله بدأت بسم الله ... ومويلا يقال بدات الشيء وابداته اى احدثته
Explicit: وهى ذات حل فتامل ذلك والله اعلم وهذا آخر الجز الاول ويتلوه فى الجز الثانى سورة العمران ان شاء الله تعالى
Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and commented text. Cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Fiber visible on the surface. Fol. 1-2 are apparently later additions on the same paper, with several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including a Kabīkaj and a dāʼirah, and a table of the names and dates of readers of the Qurʼān, presented in Persian on fol. 1b-2a. Leaves apparently missing between fol. 19 and 20 (see catchword on fol. 19b and numbering of the quire on fol. 20a). The quires (mainly quinions) are numbered using Arabic numerals (starting with "4" on fol. 20a). Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Note in the same hand as the second title on fol. 3a quoting the entry on this text in Kashf al-ẓunūn. On fol. 195b: Short text on the six reasons of illness according to the physicians of Fars, Rūm and al-Hind. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.). Title on the tail of the text block: "Kitāb al-Farīdah fī sharḥ al-Qaṣīdah". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Qirāʼāt 15".
Origin: Copy completed on Friday 8 Ṣafar 858 [Feb. 1454] (in Arabic numerals) by Yūnus Ibn Aqbughā al-muqriʼ al-Mālikī (colophon, fol. 192b).
Binding Note
Blue paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Leather spine with four sewing stations, with gilt working. Orange paper pastedowns and free endpaper. Two modern paper endleaves at the beginning of the copy.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼanic scholars—Biography—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Qurʼan—Readings—Early works to 1800
Shāṭibī, al-Qāsim ibn Fīrruh 1144-1194—Ḥirz al-amānī wa-wajh al-tahānī

Physical Characteristics

File Count
198

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c782f792-de96-4b3b-83f8-5f6eb1bb357a/manifest