Item Summary

A work treating of certain points of pronunciation in reading the Koran, namely the imālah in the pause and in the middle of a phrase.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذه رسالة قرة العين في الامالة والفتح وبين اللفظين / للشيخ ابو البقا علي بن عثمان البغدادي الشهير بالقاصح
Transliterated Title
Hādhihi Risālat Qurrat al-ʻayn fī al-imālah wa-al-fatḥ wa-bayna al-lafẓayn / lil-Shaykh Abū al-Baqā ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān al-Baghdādī al-shahīr bi-al-Qāṣiḥ
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 627H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcwp988w45v
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1872
Extent
30 leaves : paper ; 243 x 174 (175 x 90) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1215.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 511.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 109.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 549/50.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Marginal notes and glosses. Inscription and lines of poetry on title page.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 30 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon, roman-alphabet text "Andrea Galvani, Pordenone"; double-headed eagle) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday 4 Muḥarram 1289 by Muḥammad Salāmah ibn Salāmah ibn ʻAbd al-Khāliq ibn Ḥasan, known as al-Jamal (fol. 30a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي قال الشيخ الامام ... نور الدين ابو البقا علي بن عثمان ... اما بعد حمدالله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام علي سيدنا محمد خاتم النبيين واله وصحبه اجمعين فهذه رسالة سميتها قرة العين ...
Colophon: کان الفراغ منها في يوم الاربعاء المبارك الموافق لاربع ايام فاتت من شهر محرم الحرام افتتاح سنة الف ومائتين وتسعة وثمانين من هجرة من له المجد والشرف وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وسلم
Binding Note
Unbound.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
64

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/73658ac7-3e3e-46d6-9cac-5611cf977c14/manifest