al-Baqarīyah fī aḥkām tajwīd al-Qur’ān

Title:

al-Baqarīyah fī aḥkām tajwīd al-Qur’ān
البقرية في احكام تجويد القرآن

Alternative title:

Ghunyat al-ṭālibīn wa-munyat al-rāghibīn
غنية الطالبين وغنية الراغبين
Ghunyat al-ṭālibīn wa-ghunyat al-rāghibīn

Creator:

Baqarī, Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar
بقري، محمد بن عمر

Contributor:

Ismāʻīl ibn Ismāʻīl al-Qaṣṣāb al-Ḥanafī al-Shādhilī, former owner
Aḥmad al-Bayṭār, former owner
اسماعيل بن اسماعيل القصاب الحنفي الشاذلي, مالك سابق
احمد البيطار, مالك سابق

Date:

[1700-1751].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 473Origin: Lacks dated colophon. Dated ownership statement on 'title page' (p.1) provides terminus ante quem of 1751. Perhaps early to mid 18th century.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 31d" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in now dull yellow laid paper with dark red leather over spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; boards exposed rather than lined ; sewn in light brown thread, four stations ; worked endbands in cream, damaged ; overall in poor condition with significant abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of paper and leather, etc. ; repairs in blue textured paper.Support: European laid paper with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 22 mm. apart (horizontal) with no watermarks visible (most likely lost to trimming) ; thin, crisp and sturdy, cream in color, lightly burnished.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated.Script: Naskh ; fine, medium Turkish or Egyptian hand ; seriffed with gentle right-sloping head-serif on most ascenders (even free-standing alif), slight effect of tilt to the left, many open counters, curvilinear descenders, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes or conjoined dots rather than distinct dots, alif maqṣūrah pointed as yāʼ.Layout: Written in 13 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board quite evident in raking light).Collation: 6 V(60), V-4 (66) ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (mistakenly skips two pages between pp.23-24).Explicit: "ولمن زاغ عن الحق قامعا للحسنات امرا وعن السيئات زاجرا صلى الله عليه وعلى اصحابه وازواجه واتباعه"Incipit: "يقول العبد المعترف بتقصيره الراجي من ربه تهوين عسيره محمد ابن قاسم البقري بلدا الشافعي مذهبا الحمد لله على احسانه واشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده لا شريك له ... وبعد فقد سألني بعضا من الاخوان اضع له مقدمة مختصرة في تجويد القرآن فاجبته الى سؤاله ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Fine copy of a treatise on the art of reciting the Qurʼān (tajwīd). Appears incomplete (ends abruptly).

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Qurʼan Reading Early works to 1800.
Qurʼan Recitation Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Arabic

Extent:

66 leaves : paper ; 208 x 170 (149 x 101) mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006806242

Exhibit tags:

mss_quran

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