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كتاب زبدة البيان في [رسوم] مصاحف عثمان / تأليف محمد بن علي الكوبناني الكرماني.
Kitāb Zubdat al-bayān fī [rusūm] maṣāḥif ʻUthmān / taʼlīf Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Kūbnānī al-Kirmānī.
1500-1599
A treatise on the readings, orthography and compilation of ʻUthmānʼs Korans.
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- Publisher
- [16th century?]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 633H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A treatise on the readings, orthography and compilation of ʻUthmānʼs Korans.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب زبدة البيان في [رسوم] مصاحف عثمان / تأليف محمد بن علي الكوبناني الكرماني.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Zubdat al-bayān fī [rusūm] maṣāḥif ʻUthmān / taʼlīf Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Kūbnānī al-Kirmānī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 633H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcgf06gd35k
- Publisher
- [16th century?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1500-1599
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 83 leaves : paper ; 177 x 115 (115 x 60) mm. bound to 176 x 118 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1244.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Apparently this is the only copy known.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 84 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 12 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold, blue and black.
- Description: Rubricated ; gold overlining and other markings on opening spread, and in red through remainder of the MS ; MS in good condition except worm-eaten.
- Decoration: Elaborate illuminated headpiece of gold, blue, white and orange with the basmalah in silver/grey.
- Origin: Probably late XVIth century.
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي شرفنا بالايمان وعززنا بالاسلام والاحسان وخصصنا بغير كتاب هو ال فرقان ... وبعد فلا يخفي على ذوى البصائر والاتقان ان معرفة رسوم المصاحف ...
- Colophon: بالواو في الباب السادس والله اعلم والحمد لله رب العالمين تمت م
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Gold-stamped mandorla and gold-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 181
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2d3eabb4-285c-4cea-9b25-6a0a81d701a8/manifest