Item Summary

Treatise explaining difficult words used in the Qurʼān, arranged in alphabetical order.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب نزهة القلوب في تفسير غريب القرآن / تأليف الشيخ الامام ابي بكر محمد بن عزيز السجستاني.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Nuzhat al-qulūb fī tafsīr gharīb al-Qurʼān / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-imām Abī Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʻUzayz al-Sijistānī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 635H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcv979vd74t
Publisher
[1200]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1200
Extent
131 leaves: paper ; 225 x 155 (150 x 100) mm. bound to 230 x 165 mm.
Provenance
Two ownership statements with seal on fol. 1a (almost completely erased). Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1189
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
On fol. 1a: Duʻā mubārak by al-Shaykh ʻAzīz ibn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Manṣūr ... aḥad al-fuqahāʼ al-Shāfiʻīyah.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 131 + i ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page.
Description: Written in black ink with use of red ; vowel signs ; glazed dark cream paper with regular laid lines and pulp visible.
Origin: According to the colophon, copy completed on 20 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 596 [February 8, 1200] (fol. 131b).
Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين والعقبة للمتقين ولا عدوان الا على الظلمين والصلوة والسلام على رسوله محمد وآله اجمعين قال ابو بكر محمد بن عُزَيز السجستانى رحمة الله عليه هذا تفسير غريب القران الّفته على حروف المعجم ليقرب تناوله على متعلّمه
Explicit: الياء المكسورة قيل ليس فى كلام العرب كلمة اولها يا مكسورة الا قولهم يئسار ويشار لليد تم الكتاب
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in golden brown leather over paper pasteboards. Both covers are similarly blind stamped and tooled with a central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and an outer border made of fillets and a s-shape running pattern. Similar border on the envelope flap, with a smaller stamp on its point. Central cartouche and small stamps on the fore-edge flap. Yellow paper pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
276

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/07550a69-b165-4672-8db9-aa2af8b81c24/manifest