Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 632H.

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DS ID:

DS3096

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 632H.

Title:

Collection of Arabic texts on the Qurʼān

Date:

18th century

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 233 leaves : paper ; 208 x 151 (167 x 100-105) mm. bound to 209 x 155 mm.

Note:

Ms. composite codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal notes and glosses. Title on lower edge of text block: Taysīr fī al-qirāʼāt?.
6. fol. 70a-224a: Kitāb al-Taysīr fī al-qirāʼāt al-sabʻ ʻan aʼimmat al-amṣār al-sabʻah / taʼlīf Abī ʻAmr ʻUthmān ibn Saʻīd ibn ʻUthmān ibn al-Muqrī al-Dānī. A work on the various readings of the seven early Qurʼan readers.
7. fol. 225b-232a: Treatise on Qurʼanic recitation An anonymous treatise on the chanting of the Koran.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 233 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 9-21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (fol. 1-4: coat of arms topped by a crown with roman-alphabet letters "GM"; fol. 4-12: coat of arms with sextant; fol. 16-69: three crescents; fol. 70-224: unidentified circular mark, cross on three hills with roman-alphabet letters "AC") ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1128 (fol. 232a).
Ownership signatures: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Saqqāf, Ḥasan ... ibn ʻAbd Allāh (fol. 16a); Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Hindūstānī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Saqqāf (fol. 70a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Watermarks

Early works

Autographs

Blind tooled bindings

Qurʼan

Manuscripts, Arabic

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963584623506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ff85103a-5086-4ccb-947c-a37c4c03375c/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University