Descriptive Information

Title

كتاب المشكل في القرآن ... [الخ.]

Transliterated Title

Kitāb al-Mushkil fī al-Qurʼān ... [etc.]

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2340Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc0c483v99d

Publisher

[1000-1099]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1000-1099

Format

Manuscript

Extent

leaves : paper ; 205 x 138 (155 x 95) mm.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 146, 147.

Brockelmann, GAL, I, 127 (no. 11); S I, 186.

Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Contents

1. fol. 1b-188a: Kitāb al-Mushkil fī al-Qurʼān. According to notes on fol. 83a, 102b, and 111b, the ms. was collated in Dhū al-Qaʻdah 435.

2. fol. 188b-192b: Tafsīr gharīb al-ḥadīth alladhī fī Kitāb al-Mushkil. On the traditions in Ibn Qutaybahʼs work - probably by the author himself. Incomplete at end.

Notes

Ms. composite codex.

Layout: 16-17 lines per page.

Incipit: [كتاب المشكل] الحمد لله الذي نهج لنا سبل الرشاد -- [افسير غريب الحديث] قول النبى صلى الله عليه تجدون الناس کإبل

Discovery Information

Subject

Qurʼan—Dictionaries—Arabic—Early works to 1800

Ibn Qutaybah, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muslim 828-889?—Mushkil fī al-Qurʼān

Hadith—Criticism, interpretation, etc—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

396

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/26bd9933-367e-487d-ba2e-09b799d8d2ce/manifest

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