• حجة القراءات / لابي الزرعة.
  • Ḥujjat al-qirāʼāt / li-Abī al-Zurʻah.

Language:
  • Arabic
Call number:
  • Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 602H
Extent:
  • 220 leaves : paper ; 210 x 152 (150 x 89) mm. bound to 208 x 153 mm.
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from title page (fol. ia).
  • Marginal notes and glosses. It is stated in the colophon that the present copy was made from another dated 403 [1012/3]. Note on number of sheets, 66 on title page. Title? on lower edge of text block.
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 220 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in blue and red, or in blue and black.
  • Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (cross) ; MS in good condition, mended. MS is rare.
  • Origin: According to colophon copied Shawwāl 1005 by Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥājjī Yūsuf Sarkhābī (fol. 218b).
  • Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتى قرأ عاصم والکسائي مالك يوم الدين بالف وقراء الباقون بغير الف وحجتهم الملك القدوس وملك الناس ...
  • Colophon: قد وقع الفراغ من تسويد کتاب حجة القراآت من تصنيف الشيخ الجليل ابي زرعة عبدالرحمن ابن محمد بن نحله تغمده الله برحمته وکتب من نسخة تاريخ کتابة ذلك [تلك] النسخة من شهور سنة ثلث واربع مائة هجرية على يد اضعف عباد الله ابراهيم بن حاجي يوسف سرخابي الاصل الساکن والحافظ في الحضرة الغروية [؟] على مشرفها افضل الصلاة والتحية يوم الاثنين من شوال لسنة الف وخمس من الهجرة النبوية وصلى الله على محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين تم تم تم
Publisher:
  • Shawwāl 1005 [May/June 1597]
Subject:
  • Qurʼan—Readings—Early works to 1800
  • Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
  • Headbands (Binding)
  • Watermarks (Paper)
  • Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
  • Autographs (Provenance)
Date:
  • 1597
Author:
  • Ibn Zanjalah, ʻAbd al-Raḥman ibn Muḥammad, -approximately 1012
Abstract:
  • A critical study of the various readings of the Koran according to the seven early readers.
Creator:
  • Ibn Zanjalah, ʻAbd al-Raḥman ibn Muḥammad, -approximately 1012
  • ابن زنجلة، عبد الرحمن بن محمد، -approximately 1012
Contributor:
  • Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 602H
Scribe:
  • Sarkhābī, Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf, active 16th century
Collections:
  • Middle East Manuscripts
  • Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/dcdj52wg33h
Donor:
  • Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
References:
  • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1243.
Binding note:
  • Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped medallion with pendants and blind-tooled edging. Pink paper pastedowns (with bull watermark). Endbands.
Provenance:
  • Ownership signature of ʻAlī ibn Muṣṭafá al-Maḥmūd (fol. ia). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Location:
  • Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 602H
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