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Treatise on Variant Readings of the Qur'an (Kitab al-Badi') by Ibn Khalawayh (d. 980)

Title	Treatise on Variant Readings of the Qur'an (Kitab al-Badi') by Ibn Khalawayh (d. 980)
Publication Date:	980 (370H)
Type	Document
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	337 mm x 268 mm x 32 mm (height x width x depth)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	Ar 3051
Library Location	Arabic collection
Date	980 (370H)
Notes	Treatise on Variant Readings of the Qur'an (Kitab al-Badi') by Ibn Khalawayh (d. 980-1). Written in an elegant angular script, this work discusses different readings of the Qur'an, and was written by the grammarian and lexicographer Ibn Khalawayh. Born in Hamadan (Iran), he studied in Baghdad (Iraq), before moving to Aleppo (Syria), where he worked at the court of the Hamdanid amir Sayf al-Dawla. This copy of his book may have been written during Ibn Khalawayh's lifetime: an additional note records that the manuscript was written out in 370 AH (September-October 980). Codex, ink, pigments and gold on paper, 106 folios, Arabic text in eastern kufic script, Kitab al-Badi`, a treatise on canonical and non-canonical variant readings of the Qur'an, by Abu `Abdullah al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Khalawayh (d. 370 AH, 980-981), composed for Sayf al-Dawla (r. 945-967), Hamdanid ruler of Aleppo, possibly copied in Syria, dated Rabi` I 370H (folio 106r: additional line in naskh), September-October 980
Materyal	Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold
Nesne Adı	Codex

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Treatise on Variant Readings of the Qur'an (Kitab al-Badi') by Ibn Khalawayh (d. 980)

Publication Date 980 (370H)

Type Document

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 337 mm x 268 mm x 32 mm (height x width x depth)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID Ar 3051

Library Location Arabic collection

Date 980 (370H)

Notes Treatise on Variant Readings of the Qur'an (Kitab al-Badi') by Ibn Khalawayh (d. 980-1). Written in an elegant angular script, this work discusses different readings of the Qur'an, and was written by the grammarian and lexicographer Ibn Khalawayh. Born in Hamadan (Iran), he studied in Baghdad (Iraq), before moving to Aleppo (Syria), where he worked at the court of the Hamdanid amir Sayf al-Dawla. This copy of his book may have been written during Ibn Khalawayh's lifetime: an additional note records that the manuscript was written out in 370 AH (September-October 980). Codex, ink, pigments and gold on paper, 106 folios, Arabic text in eastern kufic script, Kitab al-Badi`, a treatise on canonical and non-canonical variant readings of the Qur'an, by Abu `Abdullah al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Khalawayh (d. 370 AH, 980-981), composed for Sayf al-Dawla (r. 945-967), Hamdanid ruler of Aleppo, possibly copied in Syria, dated Rabi` I 370H (folio 106r: additional line in naskh), September-October 980

Materyal Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold

Nesne Adı Codex