Item Summary

An important work on the compilation of the Koran, its various readings and principal readers. In a lengthy introduction the author deals with the importance of reading the Koran, its superiority to all revealed books, the history of its compilation and the various endeavors to keep it unaltered and uncorrupted.

Descriptive Information

Title
نشر كبير.
Transliterated Title
Nashr kabīr.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 613H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc6108vn898
Publisher
[not after 1685]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1685
Format
Manuscript
Extent
413 leaves : paper ; 217 x 137 (162 x 73) mm. bound to 214 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement and seal impression reading "al-Sayyid Ḥāfiẓ Sulaymān" dated 1097; seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1219.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 343.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 117.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 657.
Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 129.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from lower edge of text block.
A few marginal notes and glosses. On three folios before the first occur an index and a table of contents (Fihrist qirāʼ al-ʻasharah). On the three folios following the colophon are several samāʻ certificates, one dated 823.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 413 + i ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold on fol. 4b and 5a, frame-ruled in red throughout the remainder of the text.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (roman-alphabet text "R[heart]R" in an oblong with unidentified mark including laurel leaves; roman-alphabet letters "P[flower]R" in oblong with grapes below and crown above) ; MS in very good condition.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال الشيخ الامام شيخ مشايخ الاسلام خاتمة مجتهدى الانام ... و بعد فان الانسان لا يشرف الا بما يعرف ولا يفضل الا بما ععقل ولا ينجب الا بمن يصحب ولما كان القران العظيم كتاب انزل ...
Ending: اللهم بارك على محمد وعلى آل محمد کما بارکت على ابراهيم وعلى آل ابراهيم انك حميد مجيد. م
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather with green leather on spine and connection to flap. Gold-stamped mandorla with gold-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Blue-green paper pastedowns and endpapers. Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan—Readings—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Stamps
Certificates
Gold tooled bindings
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
846

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8aa21b72-f288-4e9f-9883-7a76f4dcd3bb/manifest