الاتقان في علوم القران / للسيوطي

al-Itqān fī ʻulūm al-Qurān / lil-Suyūṭī.

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[1474]
Description
i, 390, i leaves: paper ; 243 x 158 (166 x 90) mm. bound to 246 x 165 mm.

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    Summary note
    Elegant copy of a treatise on sciences of the Qurʼān, completed on 13 Shawwāl 878 [1474] (see colophon, fo. 390a).
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from lower edge of the text block.
    • 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within a gold, red and blue border. Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) in gold, blue and red on fol. 1b. Thin dark cream with pulp visible. Several inscriptions on fol. 390b. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals.
    • According to the colophon, the copy was completed on 21 Shawwāl 878 (colophon, fol. 390a).
    • Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام العالم ... جلال الدين ... الحمد لله الذي انزل علي عبده الكتاب تبصرة لاولي الالباب واودعه من فنون العلوم ... وبعد فان العلم بحر زخّار لا يدرك له من قرار
    • Explicit: واترك كلام الحاسدين وبغيهم هملا فبعد الموت يقطع الحسد وانا اتضرع الى الله جل جلاله وعز سلطانه كما من باتمام هذا الكتاب ان يتم النعمة بقبوله وان يجعلنا من السابقين الاولين من اتباع رسوله و ... وصلى الله على من لا نبى بعده وآله وصحبه وسلم
    Binding note
    Green leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Both covers have a central gold? tooled mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and a blind-tooled outer border. The envelope flap has a similar border with a smaller pattern on its point. Marbled paper pastedown and free endleaf. Red leather box with marbled paper pasted on upper and lower cover, and horizontal label on the upper flap, reading "al-Itqān fī ʻulūm al-Qurān lil-Imām al-Suyūṭī".
    Provenance
    Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, 120
    • Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Bd XVII, B4, no. 151
    • Iqbāl, A. al-Sharqāwī. Maktabat al-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī, no. 10
    • Shaybānī, M. Dalīl makhṭūṭāt al-Suyūṭī, no. 1
    Other format(s)
    • Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
    • Also available in an electronic version.
    Other title(s)
    الجزء الاول من الاتقان في علوم القرآن
    Title from a note on fol. 1a
    • al-Juzʼ al-awwal min al-Itqān fī ʻulūm al-Qurʼān
    OCLC
    77570268
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