Item Summary

The author's abridgment of his Kitāb al-Nashr fī al-qirāʼāt al-ʻashr, on the various readings of the Qurʼān. Short Fāʼidah on the same topic at the end of the copy (fol.122a, after the colophon).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب تقريب النشر في القراءات العشر / تصنيف الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة ابي عبد الله محمد بن محمد بن محمد بن الجزري الشافعي المقري رحمه الله ورحم اموات المسلين
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Taqrīb al-Nashr fī al-qirāʼāt al-ʻashr / [taṣn]īf al-shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Jazarī al-Shāfiʻī al-muqrī raḥimahu Allāhu wa-raḥima amwāt al-muslimīn.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 549Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/f7623g20z
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1452
Extent
123 leaves: paper ; 180 x 130 (120 x 95) mm. bound to 180 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Several ownership statements and impression of one seal on fol. 1a and 122b. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 220
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 201 (6/1. Auszug) ; SII
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings ; yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah; final yāʼ dotted; "hyphenation" (the last letters of some words at the end of a line are written on the next line). Dark cream paper, glossy, with laid lines and chain lines (generally in groups of three) visible. Fol. 20-53 are later replacements (19 lines per page; European paper). Collation notes on the margin. Mention "buligha qirāʼatan" and "buligha muqābalatan bi-al-...?" throughout. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including verses of poetry and ownership statements. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (faulty).
Reading statement on fol. 121b.
Collation: Paper, fol. 123 ; 1-2¹⁰ 3-5¹⁰ (European paper) 6⁴ (European paper) 7-12¹⁰ 13¹⁰ (- 1 at end of quire); catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Inscription in Roman script on a label pasted on pastedown of the upper cover: "AUT S 60".
Origin: According to colophon, copied by ʻAlāʼ(?) ibn ʻAlī, known as Ibn Rāfiʻ al-Ḥanbalī madhhaban al-Muqaddasī (Maqdisī) nasaban al-... baladan, in the Jāmiʻ al-Ḥanābilah in Ṣāliḥīyah Dimashq, Tuesday 14 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 856 [Dec. 26, 1452] (fol. 122a, with ijāzah).
Incipit: بسم ... رب يسر واعن قال السيخ الحبر الفحر القدوة الشقه الرحلة علم الايمة فخر الامة شيخ القرا والمحدثين وارث علوم سيد المرسلين ناصر الشريعة والدين اقضى القضاة شمس الدين محمد بن محمد بن محمد الجزري الشافعي رحمه الله ورضي عنه ... الحمد لله على التقريب والتيسير واشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده لا شريك له تعم المولى ونعم النصير ... وبعد فلما كان كتابي نشر القراات العشر مما عرف قدره واشتهر بين الطلبة ذكره
Explicit: اللهم ذكرني منه ما نسيت وعلمني منه ما جهلت وارزقني تلاوته انا الليل والنهار واجعله لي حجة يا رب العالمين وهذا آخر ما تسهّل اختصاره من كتاب نشر القراات العشر جعله الله خالصا لوجهه ونفع به قارياءً ومستمعا تم كتاب مختصر تقريب [crossed out] النشر في القراات العشر للشيخ الامام العالم العلامة ابي عبد الله محمد بن محمد بن محمد بن الجزري الشافعي المقري [122أ] شكر الله شيعه ورحمه ورحم اموات المسلمين اجمعين
Binding Note
Quarter bound in marbled paper and golden brown leather. Mended.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
131

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/32906af3-1d09-47c1-8215-67006fb53917/manifest