Item Summary

Treatise explaining difficult words used in the Qurʼān, arranged in alphabetical order. The text is followed on fol. 85b-87b by several additions (taʻālīq) found in the exemplar in the hand of Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-ʻAjlī. On fol. 88b, verses of poetry in Arabic and in Ottoman Turkish written by a later hand.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب تفسير غريب القرآن على حروف المعجم / تأليف ابي بكر محمد بن عزير النحوي رحمه الله
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Tafsīr gharīb al-Qurʼān ʻalá ḥurūf al-muʻjam / taʼlīf Abī Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʻUzayr al-Naḥwī raḥimahu Allāh.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 486Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/mc87ps84d
Publisher
[1341]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1341
Format
Manuscript
Extent
88 leaves: paper ; 160 x 125 (125 x 85) mm. bound to 162 x 127 mm.
Provenance
Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, 2a and 88b, in the name of Farḥī Efendi Zade, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muṣṭafá, known as --ḥ Zade (dated 1080 H.), Ibrāhīm ibn Nūr al-Dīn al-Anṭākī al-Ḥanafī, al-Sayyid Muḥammad, known as Sayyid ʻAlī ; one 21 Ṣafar [1]125. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 149
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page fol. 2a.
17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink (faded to brown) with use of red. Red dots text-stops. Thick cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Ḥāshiyah on the margins. Several inscriptions on fol. 88b. Fol. 1 is a later addition, with inscriptions (ownership statements on the recto; bibliographical note on the author on the verso). According to the catchword, some leaves are missing between fol. 7 and 8, 9 and 10.
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "S 354". Inscription in Roman script on a spine label (vertical): "AUT S 65" (repeated on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover).
Ijāzah dated 15 Jumādá al-Awwal 762 [March 23, 1361] by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī al-Maʻālī al-ʻAlawī al-Ḥusaynī for Raḍī al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Najm al-Dīn Abī al-Qāsim ibn Jabr al-Suwarāwī , with a list of the shaykh who transmitted the text (fol. 2a). Several reading statements on the margins of the colophon (fol. 85a).
Copy completed on 17 Ramaḍān 741 [March 6, 1341] by ʻAlī ibn Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Maẓāhir, from a copy in the hand of Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-ʻAjlī (colophon, fol. 85a, followed by a verse in Arabic: "al-khaṭṭ yabqá baʻd kātibih -- wa-ṣāḥib al-khaṭṭ taḥt al-arḍ madfūn")
Incipit: اخبرنى الاجلّ الاوحد العالم رضى الدين عميد الروساء ابو منصور هبه الله بن حامد بن ايوب بن على بت ايوب ادام الله علوه قراةً عليه بمنزله بالحلة ... [3أ] ... قال اخبرنا ابو بكر محمد بن عزير السجستانى النحوى قال الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على محمد وآله وسلم هذا تفسير غريب القرآن اُلِّفَ على حروف المعجم ليقرب تناوله ويسهل حفظه على من اراده وبالله التوفيق والعون الهمزة المفتوحة الم وساير حروف الهجاء فى اوايل السور كان بعض المفسّرين
Explicit: الياء المكسورة قيل ليس فى العربية كلمة اولها يآء مكسورة الّا فى قولهم يِسارٌ لغةٌ فى يَسارٌ لليد السرى تم الكتاب
Binding Note
Paper pasted over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Edges and spine in brown leather. Paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan—Glossaries, vocabularies, etc—10th century
Qurʼan—Criticism, Textual—10th century
Muslim scholars—Certification—History—14th century—Sources
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
96

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6b1913de-a995-42d4-8241-c371a66cf577/manifest