Item Summary

An abridgment of al-Taysīr fī al-qirāʼāt al-sabʻ. This present work covers three additional readings.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب تحبير التيسير في القراءات العشرة / تأليف ابو الخير شمس الدين محمد بن محمد بن محمد بن الجزري الشافعي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Taḥbīr al-Taysīr fī al-qirāʼāt al-ʻasharah / taʼlīf Abū al-Khayr Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Jazarī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 604H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcrn301c00x
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1650-1873
Extent
70 leaves : paper ; 204 x 140 (130-143 x 80-90) mm. bound to 204 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Būyʹābādī with seal impression reading "Ḥasan"; Imām of Masjid Mahānī Khātūn in al-Uskudar [Üsküdar, Turkey] dated [1]290 with seal impression reading "ʻabduhu al-Sayyid Ḥāfiẓ Sulaymān" (fol. ia). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1192.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 488
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 92/3.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 590.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of text (fol. iia).
Marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. Folios 28-39 are on different paper and in a different hand.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 70 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23-24 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; text overlined in red ; watermarks (fol.1-27: three hats, countermark with roman-alphabet letters "AO[?]" with a clover; fol. 28-39: eagle? or coat-of-arms?) ; MS in good condition.
Incipit: کتاب تحبير التيسير في القرا آت العشرة تأليف الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة ... الجزرى الشافعى ... قال الشيخ الفاضل العلامة الافضل المتاخرين الكمل ...
Ending: الله اکبر. سقطت الف الوصل التي في اول اسم الله عز وجل في جميع ذلك استغناء عنها فاعلم ذلك موفقا لطريق الصواب. تمت [تم] الکتاب. م
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and tan paper. Fols. 28-39 glued in rather than sewn in like the other quires.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
155

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ff663a24-1696-4973-a961-954c4026361a/manifest