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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb Sharḥ al-Jazaīyah كتاب شرح الجزرية /

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Title

  • Kitāb Sharḥ al-Jazaīyah

Other Title

  • كتاب شرح الجزرية /

Summary

  • al-Anṣārī's commentary on Ibn al-Jazarī's Muqaddimah on the recitation of the Qurʼān.

Names

  • Anṣārī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1423-approximately 1520
  • Shādhilī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh, approximately 1196-1258
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [late 17th-early 18th century]

Headings

  • -  Ibn al-Jazarī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad,--1350-1429.--Muqaddimah al-Jazarīyah fī al-tajwīd
  • -  Qurʼan--Recitation--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Written by Abū Bakr ibn Sharaf al-Dīn ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Qamrah al-ʼĪshāwī baladan al-Umawī maḥallan al-Shāfiʻī madhhaban.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Statement of former owner on fol. 1a has date 1196 (1782).
  • -  Paper; dark cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of an anchor within a circle; black ink with rubrication; margins heavily annotated on many leaves; worm damage throughout; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, SII, p. 276
  • -  Text is followed by a Sufi poem beginning "Iqīẓ jufūnaka min sinatin wa-unẓur bi-ʻaqlika mā fī al-arḍ min ʻibri, ...; a brief treatise which has the caption "Hādhā Aḥzab al-baḥr lil-shaykh al-ʻārif dhī al-karāmāt al-ʻārif sayyidī Abī al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī ...; fol. 30b has a dedicatory poem by the scribe.
  • -  Naskh; 21 lines in written area 15 x 9 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-30b.
  • -  "H-0225 = 1.268."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 1-268.
  • -  Binding; black half leather with black grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وبه ثقتي. الحمد لله الذي افتتح بالحمد كتابة واجزل لمن جوده وعمل به ثوابه. ,وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد الامين وعلى آله وصحبه اجمعين. وبعد ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: تم شرح الجزرية للقاضي زكريا الانصاري بعون الله وحسن توفيقه على يد العبد الفقير الراجي عفو ربه القدير ابي بكر ابن شرف الدين بن الحاج محمد قمرة العيثاوي بلدا والاموي محلا الشافعي مذهبا حامدا مصليا مسلما ليلة الاثنين لتسع عشرين مضمنت من شهر ربيع الخر المبارك.

Medium

  • 30 leaves (15 lines), paper : bound ; 21.3 x 15.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP131.6.I2583 A57 1600z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017454684

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Anṣārī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad, Approximately Approximately 1520, Abū Al-Ḥasan ʻAlī Ibn ʻAbd Allāh Shādhilī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb Sharḥ al-Jazaīyah. [Late 17th-Early 18th Century, 1675] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017454684/.

APA citation style:

Anṣārī, Z. I. M., Shādhilī, A. A. ʻ. I. ʻ. A., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1675) Kitāb Sharḥ al-Jazaīyah. [Late 17th-Early 18th Century] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017454684/.

MLA citation style:

Anṣārī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad, Approximately Approximately 1520, et al. Kitāb Sharḥ al-Jazaīyah. [Late 17th-Early 18th Century, 1675] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017454684/>.