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المنتهى في القراءات
al-Muntahá [fī al-qirāʼāt].
Author
Khuzāʻī, Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar, -1017 or 1018
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خزاعي، محمد بن جعفر
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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[before 1405]
Description
156 leaves : paper ; 127 x 97 (85 x 64) mm. bound to 132 x 103 mm.
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Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3558Y
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Subject(s)
Qurʼan
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Readings
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Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Related name
Ibn al-Jazarī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1350-1429
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Summary note
Aceph. copy of a treatise completed in Jurjān in 396 H. (colophon, fol. 163a) on readings of the Qurʼān, mentioned by Ibn al-Jazarī (d. 833/1429; Ghāyat al-nihāyah, II, 109).
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from Mach, R. Yahuda, based on a mention in the text ("kitābī hādhā al-muntahá", fol. 14b, l. 9-10).
Name of the author according to Mach, R. Yahuda.
13 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red and blue. Thick dark cream glazed paper with laid lines visible. Four missing leaves at end supplied by the hand of Ibn al-Jazarī on 25 Ṣafar 808, copying from a copy dated 23 Shawwāl 468 H. (see his colophon, fol. 163a). On fol. 163b: Prayer. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (counting the 7 first fly leaves as fol. 1-7; this record is in accordance with this faulty foliation).
Beginning (as extant): اسحق ابراهيم بن عبد الرزاق وقال قرات بها علي ابى ربيعة وقرا ابو ربيعة علي قنبل قال فقلت له كيف سمعت الكتاب منه
End (original text, fol. 159b): الي قوله وانا من المسلمين بالفتح دمشقي
End (Ibn al-Jazarī, fol. 163a): انه قرا على ابى رهب رضى الله عنه فامره(؟) بذلك واخبره ابى رهب انه قرا على النبى صلى الله عليه وسلم فامره(؟) بذلك تم الكتاب
Binding note
Red leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Marbled paper pastedowns and endpaper.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 188
Kâtip Çelebi. Kashf al-ẓunūn (ed. G. Fluegel), vol. 6, p. 180 (no. 13133)
Other title(s)
منتهى في القراءات العشرة
Title in Kashf al-ẓunūn
Muntahá fī al-qirāʼāt al-ʻashrah
OCLC
70666194
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