Item Summary

An ode rhyming in rāʼ in 297 verses on determining the number of verses in the Koran.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب ناظمة الزهر في اعداد آيات القرآن الشريف واختلاف اهل الامصار فيها / تأليف ابي القسم الشاطبي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Nāẓimat al-zuhr fī aʻdād āyāt al-Qurʼān al-sharīf wa-ikhtilāf ahl al-amṣār fīhā / taʼlīf Abī al-Qasim [sic] al-Shāṭibī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 601H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc8s45qm40z
Language
Arabic
Format
Manuscript
Extent
11 leaves : paper ; 200 x 150 (150 x 91) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1195.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 291.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few glosses. On the title page is a list of abbreviations in the work.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 11 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; verse separators in red ; full vowel signs ; watermarks (circular design, possibly anchor?) ; MS in good condition.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وهو حسنى بدأت بحمد الله ناظمة الزهر لتجنى بحمد الله عينا من الزهر
Colophon: وتمت بحمد الله حسنى مفيدة * فلله رب العرش حمدي مع شکري * وابياتهها تسعون مع ماتين قل * وزد سبعة تحکي اللجين مع الدر * واهدي صلاة الله ثم سلامه * على المصطفى والآل مع صحبه الغر * والاشياع اهل العلم والزهد والتقى * مع الحلم والاحسان والعفو والصبر
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Poetry
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
26

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/265a9eae-4dfd-40f4-8fd6-0abfed9b575d/manifest