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Title
كتاب المقاصد الصالحة في شرح شي من علوم الفاتحة ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Maqāṣid al-ṣāliḥah fī sharḥ shay min ʻulūm al-Fātiḥah ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 619H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dct722hm43x
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
1 volume (various pagings) : paper ; 220-244 x 165-172 (155-185 x 88-120) mm bound to 241 x 178 mm.
Provenance
Signature of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Saqqāf al-ʻAlawī (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1236, 1239, 1234, 1247, 1121-A.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-49a (first group): Kitạb al-Maqāṣid al-ṣāliḥah fī sharḥ shay min ʻulūm al-Fātiḥah / jamʻ Aḥmad ibn Zayn ibn ʻAlawī al-Ḥusayn al-ʻAlawī. A work on al-Fātiḥah, the opening chapter of the Qurʼan, with a study of what other commentators had to say about it. It is stated in the preface that this work is based on al-Anwār al-lāʼiḥah.
2. fol. 1a-16a (second group): Ḥiṣn al-qāriʼ fī ikhtilāf al-maqāriʼ / Hāshim ibn Muḥammad al-Maghribī. A work on the various readings of the Qurʼan.
3. fol. 1b-18a (third group): [Risālah fī fann al-Qurʼān] / ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ujhūrī al-Muqrī al-Mālikī Abū al-Laṭāʼif. A treatise on the readings of the Qurʼan. It is stated in the preface that this is an abridgment of the work of a certain al-Manṣūrī.
4. fol. 1b-24b (fourth group): [Risālah fī qirāʼāt al-Qurʼān] A treatise on the readings of some of the verses in the Qurʼan.
5. fol. 24b-26b (fourth group): al-Fawāyid fī āyāt al-zawāyid.
6. fol. 1b-145b (fifth group): ʻUjālah nāfiʻah lil-ṭabīb al-labīb / Darwīsh Muḥammad ibn Ḥāfiẓ ʻAlam Khān al-maʻrūf bi-Mawlānā Najm al-Barr al-Ṣiddīqī al-... A manual of medicine. The author calls the chapter ḥadīqah, the section dawḥah and the paragraph lawḥ. From the second bāb of the second dawḥah of the second ḥadīqah to the end of the third ḥadīqah is a lacuna. Incomplete at the end. Folios 1-35 are in one hand and folios 36-145 in another.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 49 + (1) + 16 + (4) + 18 + (2) + 26 + (1) +145 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 18-25 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (first group: shield with a face-in-the-moon, roman-alphabet letters "AG"; second-third group: three crescents; fourth group: four-legged animal, roman-alphabet letters "IMSC"; fifth group: shield with a face-in-the-moon, and roman-alphabet letters "AG", bird?) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: [al-Maqāṣid al-ṣāliḥah] Copied end of Shawwāl 1281 (fol. 49a, first group) -- [Ḥiṣn al-qāriʼ] Copied 27 Shaʻbān 1256 by Aḥmad al-Khuḍayrī (fol. 16b, second group) -- [Risālah fī fann al-Qurʼān] MS from XIX century.
Incipit: [المقاصد الصالحة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الواحد القدوس اهل الحمد ومستحقه المنفرد بالانام والافادة -- [حصن القارئ] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله وبعد فهذا تقييد قصدت به بيان ما اختلف فيه من اوجه القران -- [رسالة في فن القرآن] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين ولا عدوان الا على الظالمين -- [رسالة في قراآت القرآن] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين ... مسئلة الاستفادة والبسملة واول الفاتحة يجوز لكل من القراء -- [الفوايد في ياات] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الفوايد في ياات الزوايد سورة البقره -- [عجالة نافعة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي خلق للداء دواء والعلة شفاء والصلاة على رسوله محمد
Colophon: [المقاصد الصالحة] وکان الفراغ من نساخته سلخ شوال سنة 1281 -- [حصن القارئ] تم بحمد الله وعونه على يد افقر العباد الى الله احمد الخضيري في 27 شعبان سنة 1256 -- [رسالة في فن القرآن] تمت بحمدالله وعونه وحسن توفيقه والله اعلم اعلم اعلم -- [رسالة في قراآت القرآن] والله اعلم بذلك کله والحمد لله تعالى اولا واخرا وظاهرا وباطنا وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد النبي الامي وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما کثيرا والحمد لله رب العالمين امين امين امين -- [الفوايد في ياات] والله اعلم بغيبه واحكم -- [عجالة نافعة] بل للنهوض فالاول للثالث والرابع للسادس
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla on covers. Blind-tooled edging on covers and flap.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan Sūrat al-Fātiḥah—Early works to 1800
Qurʼan—Readings—Early works to 1800
Medicine, Arab
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
534

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fd093406-333f-4066-b07d-b701aebccbb7/manifest