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Kitāb Qiṣaṣ al-Qurʼān al-ʻaẓīm / taʼlīf al-ustādh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah al-sayyid Abū al-Ḥasan al-Hayṣam ibn Muḥammad.

Title Kitāb Qiṣaṣ al-Qurʼān al-ʻaẓīm / taʼlīf al-ustādh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah al-sayyid Abū al-Ḥasan al-Hayṣam ibn Muḥammad.
Author Būshanjī, al-Hayṣam ibn Muḥammad, active 11th century
Publication Date: [1704]
Subject Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ[Browse]Prophets—Early works to 1800[Browse]Qurʼan stories—Early works to 1800[Browse]Qurʼan—History of Qurʼanic events—Early works to 1800[Browse]Qurʼan—Biography—Early works to 1800[Browse]Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton[Browse]
Type kitap
Language Arabic
Digital No
Manuscript Yes
Pages Count 314
Physical Dimensions 314 leaves : paper ; 297 x 203 (229 x 136) mm. bound to 301 x 223 mm.
Library: Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID 70697449
Record ID 9948053813506421
Date [1704]
Notes Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a). Part of the rest of the title is obliterated, reading : "wa-huwa [...] min kitābihi raḥimahu Allāh taʻālā" (see also colophon, fol. 343b: "tamma hadh[...] min hādhā al-kitāb").In the Persian translation of this work (see GAL, SI, 592), the author's name is Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Hayṣam. The name Ibn Hayṣam is also written on two modern labels on our ms. (on the pastedown of the upper and lower cover respectively). For the date 400 H. [1009] associated to the author, see fol. 213b.29 lines per page, verses of poetry in two columns. Written in thick medium large naskh in black ink with use of red (R. Mach: Yemenite hand), on European glazed paper (frame-ruled, 7 mm.). The text is framed in two red lines throughout. A few notes in the margin. Ownership statement on fol. 1a. Stamp on the lower cover. Label on pastedown of the upper and of the lower cover mentioning the title in Arabic, the date of the copy in Western numerals and the inscription "ELS no. 49". Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Copied by [...] ibn ʻAlī al-Zankalūnī on Friday 16 Rajab 1116 (colophon, fol. 313b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي خلق الخلق اظهارا لقدرته وبسط عليهم الرزق اسباغا لنعمته ... اما بعد فقد كنت لقنت بعض الاصحاب موجزا من ذكر قصص القرانExplicit: رجالا من اعيان قريش منهم ابو سفين بن حرب ومحذمة بن نوفل و عمرو بن العاص وغيرهم تم - Upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap made of brown leather over paper pasteboards. The lower and upper covers are similarly blind-tooled with a central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and an outer frame with fillets and a running pattern of flower stamps. A vertical fillet connects the central pattern to the frame. The envelope flap has a similar outer frame with a roundel at its point. - Treatise explaining the stories of the Koran and events in the life of the Prophet Muḥammad. This ms. seems to contain the first part of this book (see note on the title).
Kaynak Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Referanslar Mach, R. Yahuda, 4391Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 592/3
Edinme Kaynağı Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
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Kitāb Qiṣaṣ al-Qurʼān al-ʻaẓīm / taʼlīf al-ustādh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah al-sayyid Abū al-Ḥasan al-Hayṣam ibn Muḥammad.

Author Būshanjī, al-Hayṣam ibn Muḥammad, active 11th century
Publication Date [1704]
Subject Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ[Browse]Prophets—Early works to 1800[Browse]Qurʼan stories—Early works to 1800[Browse]Qurʼan—History of Qurʼanic events—Early works to 1800[Browse]Qurʼan—Biography—Early works to 1800[Browse]Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton[Browse]
Type kitap
Language Arabic
Digital No
Manuscript Yes
Pages Count 314
Physical Dimensions 314 leaves : paper ; 297 x 203 (229 x 136) mm. bound to 301 x 223 mm.
Library Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID 70697449
Record ID 9948053813506421
Date [1704]
Notes Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 1a). Part of the rest of the title is obliterated, reading : "wa-huwa [...] min kitābihi raḥimahu Allāh taʻālā" (see also colophon, fol. 343b: "tamma hadh[...] min hādhā al-kitāb").In the Persian translation of this work (see GAL, SI, 592), the author's name is Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Hayṣam. The name Ibn Hayṣam is also written on two modern labels on our ms. (on the pastedown of the upper and lower cover respectively). For the date 400 H. [1009] associated to the author, see fol. 213b.29 lines per page, verses of poetry in two columns. Written in thick medium large naskh in black ink with use of red (R. Mach: Yemenite hand), on European glazed paper (frame-ruled, 7 mm.). The text is framed in two red lines throughout. A few notes in the margin. Ownership statement on fol. 1a. Stamp on the lower cover. Label on pastedown of the upper and of the lower cover mentioning the title in Arabic, the date of the copy in Western numerals and the inscription "ELS no. 49". Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Copied by [...] ibn ʻAlī al-Zankalūnī on Friday 16 Rajab 1116 (colophon, fol. 313b).Incipit: الحمد لله الذي خلق الخلق اظهارا لقدرته وبسط عليهم الرزق اسباغا لنعمته ... اما بعد فقد كنت لقنت بعض الاصحاب موجزا من ذكر قصص القرانExplicit: رجالا من اعيان قريش منهم ابو سفين بن حرب ومحذمة بن نوفل و عمرو بن العاص وغيرهم تم - Upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap made of brown leather over paper pasteboards. The lower and upper covers are similarly blind-tooled with a central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and an outer frame with fillets and a running pattern of flower stamps. A vertical fillet connects the central pattern to the frame. The envelope flap has a similar outer frame with a roundel at its point. - Treatise explaining the stories of the Koran and events in the life of the Prophet Muḥammad. This ms. seems to contain the first part of this book (see note on the title).
Kaynak Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Referanslar Mach, R. Yahuda, 4391Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 592/3
Edinme Kaynağı Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
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