Author
Dimyāṭī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1705
Author Original
Dimyāṭī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1705, دمياطي، احمد بن محمد، -1705
Publication Date
1092
Publication Place
-
1 Ramaḍān 1092 [September 14, 1681]
Subject
Qurʼan—Readings—Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton, tuǧras, Autographs, Stamps, Blind tooled bindings, Watermarks (Paper)
Type
Book
Language
ar
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Library
Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID
9963577313506421
Record ID
dcmw22vh10g
Library Location
Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 615H
Date
01-01-1681 T00:00:00 AH/914-12-31 T:Khas:Khasz — 1681-914
Notes
An important work on the various readings of the Qur’an. The work is otherwise known as Muntahá al-amānī wa-al-masarrāt fī ʻulūm al-qirāʼāt. | Ms. codex., Title from title page (fol. 1a)., A few marginal notes and glosses. The work was composed 1085 [1674]. Inscription about the author (fol. 1a)., Collection: Paper ; fol. (2) + 368 + (1); requires signed: 1-37; catchwords; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals., Layout: 21 lines per page., Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition., Origin: According to colophon copied gharrat Ramaḍān 1092 (fol. 368a)., Incipit: In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, and He is Most Good and Most Merciful. Praise be to God, who, with the splendor of His wisdom, gathered together the various sciences in the briefest book..., Colophon: The completion of writing this blessed copy occurred at the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, which was two years old. And ninety thousand, and praise be to God, a lot of good and blessed praise, praise that will continue His blessings and reward more of them, and may God’s blessings and peace be upon our master Muhammad, his family, his companions, his wives, his offspring, and his household, as it should and as it should from eternity to eternity, according to the number of his information, and on us with them, and praise be to God, Lord of the worlds. Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather with red leather spine and flap connector. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Marbled paper pastedowns. Not sewn. | Ownership signatures of ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Aḥmad al-Anṣārī al-Khazrajī al-Ḥanafī ; seal impression reading "Yā Karīm" with date [1]117; ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm [...] al-Ḥanafī dated 1163 with his tughra; Miḥḍār ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥamad al-Saqqāf (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900. | Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1235., Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 91.
