Manuscript/Mixed Material Hādhā Kitāb Gharīb al-Qurʼān هذا كتاب غريب القرآن / Gharīb al-Qurʼān li-Abī Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʻUzayr al-Sijistānī / Tafsīr gharīb al-Qurʼān

Title

• Hādhā Kitāb Gharīb al-Qurʼān

Other Title

• هذا كتاب غريب القرآن
• Gharīb al-Qurʼān li-Abī Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʻUzayr al-Sijistānī
• Tafsīr gharīb al-Qurʼān

Summary

• Work on difficult terms and phrases in the Qurʼān followed by an unidentified Persian work on metaphor.

Names

• Sijistānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUzayr, -941 or 942
• Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
• Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• 1237 [1821 or 1822]

Contents

• Fol. 1b-77a. Gharīb al-Qurʼān / Muḥammad ibn ʻUzayr al-Sijistānī -- fol. 78a-109b. [Unidentified Persian work on definitions of figures of speech and metaphor].

Headings

• -  Qurʼan--Language, style--Dictionaries--Early works to 1800
• -  Metaphor--Dictionaries--Persian
• -  Persian language--Figures of speech--Dictionaries
• -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)
• -  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

• -  Manuscript.
• -  Arabic and Persian.
• -  Also known as Tafsīr gharīb al-Qurʼān and Nuzhat al-qulūb.
• -  Following the text is an unidentified Persian work on definitions of figures of speech and metaphor.
• -  Caption title.
• -  Gharīb al-Qurʼān written by Muḥammad Riḍā ibn al-Mabrū(?) ibn ʻAbd Allāh ʻUmar al-Iṣfahānī; scribe of second work not identified.
• -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
• -  Probably written in Iran.
• -  Paper; blue laid paper with vertical chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication and overlining; margins heavily annotated (first work); second work has no rubrication; both works have catchwords.
• -  Brockelmann. GAL, GI, p. 119; SI, p. 183
• -  Naskh; 21 lines in written area 14 x 6.5 cm (1st work); nastaʻlīq, 21 lines in written area 14 x 6.5 cm.
• -  Fol. 1b-77a; fol. 78a-109b; fol. 110 has additional notes in Persian.
• -  "2. I 181 = 1.172."
• -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 1-172.
• -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name at base of spine.
• -  Incipit: البسملة. اخرني السيد الاوحد العالم رضي الدين عميد الرؤسا ابو منصور هبة الله بن حامد بن احمد بن ايوب ...
• -  Explicit/Colophon: مت بعون الله الملك المتعال محمد رضا ابن المبرو بن عبد الله اصفهاني في سنة سبع وثلاثين وماتين بعد الالف من الهجرة النبوية.

Medium

• 1 volume

Call Number/Physical Location

• PJ6696.Z8 S5 1821

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/amedarabicmss.2016503192

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2016503192

Online Format

• pdf
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2016503192

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