Kitāb al-Tibyān fī iʻrāb al-Qurʼān

Name: Kitāb al-Tibyān fī iʻrāb al-Qurʼān
Author: ʻUkbarī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn, 1143 or 1144-1219, .عكبري، عبد الله بن الحسين

Title	Kitāb al-Tibyān fī iʻrāb al-Qurʼān
Author	ʻUkbarī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn, 1143 or 1144-1219, .عكبري، عبد الله بن الحسين
Author Original	عكبري، عبد الله بن الحسين
Publication Date:	1300
Subject	Qurʼan -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800, Qurʼan -- Language, style -- Early works to 1800, Arabic language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800, Arabic philology -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Type	kitap
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	190 leaves : paper ; 245 x 165 (190-210 x 130) mm
Library:	University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID	1194838765
Record ID	990059857150106381
Library Location	UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date	14th century (exact date unknown)
Notes	Ms. codex., Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.3)., Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي وفقنا لحفظ كتابه ووقفنا على الجليل من حكمه واحكامه وآدابه والهمنا بتدبر معانيه ووجوه اعرابه وعرفنا فنون اساليبه من حقيقته ومجازه وايجازه واسهابه احمده على الاعتصام بامتن اسبابه واشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده لا شريك له", Explicit: "قوله من الجنة هو بدل من شرٍ اعاده العامل اي من شر الجنة وقيل هو بدل من ذي الوسواس لان الموسوس من الجن وقيل هو حال من الضمير في يوسوس اي يوسوس وهو من الجن وقيل هو بدل من الناس اي في صدور الجنة وجعل من تبيينا واطلق على الجن اسم الناس لانهم يتحركون في مراداتهم والجن والجنة بمعنى وقيل من الجنة حال من الناس اي كائنين من القبيلين واما الناس لالخيار فقيل هو معطوف على ذي الوسواس اي من شر القبيلين وقيل هو معطوف على الجنة", Colophon: "Authorial," reads: "قال الشيخ هذا اخر ما تيسر من املاء كتاب التبيان في اعراب القرآن ونسأل الله ان يوفقنا لشكر ...", Collation: 19 V (190) ; entirely quinions ; catchwords lacking (perhaps cutoff) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes scrap marking 'hand change')., Layout: Written in 21, 29 and 30 lines per page ; frame-ruled., Script: Naskh ; clear Syrian or Egyptian hand, larger in the opening and final section but smaller in between ; apparent hand changes around p.208 and again at p.363 ; opening hand mainly serifless, with alifs sometimes tapered with slight left foot (more pronounced in section headings), very slight effect of tilt to the left and of words descending to the left, mix of open and closed counters, and somewhat casually pointed ; following hands are very similar though second hand is certainly more compact with greater use of kāf mashqūqah in the final position and final hand is more liberally pointed (even alif maqṣūrah), with final hāʼ closed (approaching muḥdawdabah or makhṭūfah), and final yāʼ of في mardūdah ; often vocalized., Decoration: Section headings and keywords setoff in larger, heavier script though not rubricated., Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper of medium thickness with 10 laid lines per cm (horizontal) ; chain lines difficult to examine but appear to be 2 sets of 3, with 16-18 mm. between lines and roughly 50 mm. between sets., Binding: Pasteboards covered in block-printed paper (repeating star/flower, circle motif) over marbled paper (in blue and white) with spine and edges/turn-ins in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap, now fully detached) ; board linings in laid paper ; sewn in white thread, two stations ; worked endbands in blue and white, largely intact ; overall in poor condition with upper cover entirely detached, flap entirely detached, abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, etc. ; housed in box for protection., Former shelfmark: From inscription on interior of upper cover, "IL 39a" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip) ; "۲۸۰" on 'title page' (p.3)., Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda. -- c. Scrap marking 'hand change' (paginated pp.209-210)., Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; hand and paper suggest very late 13th or 14th century., Several former owners' marks including that on recto of opening leaf (p.1), large oval seal impression on 'title page' (p.3) and at opening on p.4, poetry and inscriptions on 'title page' (p.3) one of which opens "للشيخ مرشد الدين الفارقي [؟] ..." ; occasional corrections in the hand of the copyist(s) ; a number of short glosses, most of them in the same (difficult) hand with a thin carbon-based ink., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 452
Sample Text	Fine copy of al-ʻUkbarī's philological commentary on the semantic grammar of the Qurʼān. Description provided by Noah Gardiner.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi	20251210
Biçim	Book, Manuscript, Available Online
Koleksiyonda	Yahuda Collection.
Referanslar	Brockelmann, C. GAL, I 282
Elde Ediliş	Acquired in 1926 from the bookseller Isaac Benjamin S.E. Yahuda via purchase transacted on his behalf by Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951), his younger brother.

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Kitāb al-Tibyān fī iʻrāb al-Qurʼān

Author ʻUkbarī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn, 1143 or 1144-1219, .عكبري، عبد الله بن الحسين

Author Original عكبري، عبد الله بن الحسين

Publication Date 1300

Subject Qurʼan -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800, Qurʼan -- Language, style -- Early works to 1800, Arabic language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800, Arabic philology -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor

Type kitap

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 190 leaves : paper ; 245 x 165 (190-210 x 130) mm

Library University of Michigan Library

Library Asset ID 1194838765

Record ID 990059857150106381

Library Location UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library

Date 14th century (exact date unknown)

Notes Ms. codex., Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.3)., Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي وفقنا لحفظ كتابه ووقفنا على الجليل من حكمه واحكامه وآدابه والهمنا بتدبر معانيه ووجوه اعرابه وعرفنا فنون اساليبه من حقيقته ومجازه وايجازه واسهابه احمده على الاعتصام بامتن اسبابه واشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده لا شريك له", Explicit: "قوله من الجنة هو بدل من شرٍ اعاده العامل اي من شر الجنة وقيل هو بدل من ذي الوسواس لان الموسوس من الجن وقيل هو حال من الضمير في يوسوس اي يوسوس وهو من الجن وقيل هو بدل من الناس اي في صدور الجنة وجعل من تبيينا واطلق على الجن اسم الناس لانهم يتحركون في مراداتهم والجن والجنة بمعنى وقيل من الجنة حال من الناس اي كائنين من القبيلين واما الناس لالخيار فقيل هو معطوف على ذي الوسواس اي من شر القبيلين وقيل هو معطوف على الجنة", Colophon: "Authorial," reads: "قال الشيخ هذا اخر ما تيسر من املاء كتاب التبيان في اعراب القرآن ونسأل الله ان يوفقنا لشكر ...", Collation: 19 V (190) ; entirely quinions ; catchwords lacking (perhaps cutoff) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes scrap marking 'hand change')., Layout: Written in 21, 29 and 30 lines per page ; frame-ruled., Script: Naskh ; clear Syrian or Egyptian hand, larger in the opening and final section but smaller in between ; apparent hand changes around p.208 and again at p.363 ; opening hand mainly serifless, with alifs sometimes tapered with slight left foot (more pronounced in section headings), very slight effect of tilt to the left and of words descending to the left, mix of open and closed counters, and somewhat casually pointed ; following hands are very similar though second hand is certainly more compact with greater use of kāf mashqūqah in the final position and final hand is more liberally pointed (even alif maqṣūrah), with final hāʼ closed (approaching muḥdawdabah or makhṭūfah), and final yāʼ of في mardūdah ; often vocalized., Decoration: Section headings and keywords setoff in larger, heavier script though not rubricated., Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper of medium thickness with 10 laid lines per cm (horizontal) ; chain lines difficult to examine but appear to be 2 sets of 3, with 16-18 mm. between lines and roughly 50 mm. between sets., Binding: Pasteboards covered in block-printed paper (repeating star/flower, circle motif) over marbled paper (in blue and white) with spine and edges/turn-ins in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap, now fully detached) ; board linings in laid paper ; sewn in white thread, two stations ; worked endbands in blue and white, largely intact ; overall in poor condition with upper cover entirely detached, flap entirely detached, abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, etc. ; housed in box for protection., Former shelfmark: From inscription on interior of upper cover, "IL 39a" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip) ; "۲۸۰" on 'title page' (p.3)., Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda. -- c. Scrap marking 'hand change' (paginated pp.209-210)., Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; hand and paper suggest very late 13th or 14th century., Several former owners' marks including that on recto of opening leaf (p.1), large oval seal impression on 'title page' (p.3) and at opening on p.4, poetry and inscriptions on 'title page' (p.3) one of which opens "للشيخ مرشد الدين الفارقي [؟] ..." ; occasional corrections in the hand of the copyist(s) ; a number of short glosses, most of them in the same (difficult) hand with a thin carbon-based ink., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 452

Sample Text Fine copy of al-ʻUkbarī's philological commentary on the semantic grammar of the Qurʼān. Description provided by Noah Gardiner.

Son Dizinleme Tarihi 20251210

Biçim Book, Manuscript, Available Online

Koleksiyonda Yahuda Collection.

Referanslar Brockelmann, C. GAL, I 282

Elde Ediliş Acquired in 1926 from the bookseller Isaac Benjamin S.E. Yahuda via purchase transacted on his behalf by Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951), his younger brother.