Item Summary

An ode of a thousand verses on the various readings of the Qurʼan.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب متن الطيبة النشر في القرات العشر / للامام محمد بن الجزري.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb matn al-Ṭayyibah al-nashr fī al-qirʼāt al-ʻashr / lil-Imām Muḥammad ibn al-Jazarī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 200L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc00000c10h
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1817
Extent
37 leaves : paper ; 232 x 170 (160 x 115) mm bound to 231 x 172 mm.
Provenance
Seal impression of Muḥammad al-Suyūfī? (fol. 1a and 37a). Ownership and readership statement of Aḥmad Muqaybil with his seal impression (fol. 37b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1254.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, pp. 172/3.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 659.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal glosses. Four lines of verse, an ownership/readership statement, and a table (fol. 37b-(i)b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 37 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page in two columns.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (coat-of-arms) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 11 Rajab 1232 (fol. 37a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال محمد هو ابن الجزري * يا ذا الجلال ارحمه واغفر واستر ...
Colophon: تمت الطيبة المباركه بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه ووافق الفراغ من كتابتها يوم الاربع المبارك الحادي عشر من شهر رجب الفرد الذي هو من شهور سنة 1232 الف ومايتين واثنين وثلاثين من الهجره تم
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather and yellow paper with block-stamped design. Pink paper pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
88

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/37223352-1252-427e-9a7e-64af344e8623/manifest