ARABIC MANUSCRIPT. [Quran - Recitation]. Excerpts from the p - Lot 266

ARABIC MANUSCRIPT. [Quran - Recitation]. Excerpts from the poem al-Shāṭibīya on the seven variants of reading the Qur'an. [s.l., s.d. - between 17th and 19th c.]. Arabic manuscript in magribi text of [28] pp. (including 3 bl.) on [14] ff. in-12 oblong (12.2 x 18 cm), 6 lines per page, sura titles in interlinear position, text on two columns written in maghribi, black and red ink (very slight wetness). Arabic MANUSCRIT in fully vocalized Maghribi script featuring verses extracted from the poem al-Shāṭibīya by the Andalusian scholar Abū l-Qāsim al-Shāṭibī (1144-1194). This is a text of 1173 verses compiled in the 12th century documenting the correct way to recite Qur'anic verses and the seven readings (qirāʾāt: Nāfiʿ, Ibn Kathīr, Abu 'Amr, Ibn 'Āmir, 'Āṣim, al-Kisā'i, and Hamza). The present copy features 150 verses comprising the following passages: end of the section on Surat al-ʿAraf, passage on Surat al-Anfal (The Spoils), Surat al-Tawba (Repentance), Surat Yunis (Jonah), Surat Hud, Surat Yusuf (Joseph), Surat al-Rād (Thunder), Surat Ibrahim (Abraham), Surat al-Hijr, Surat al-Nahl (The Bees), Surat al-Isra (The Night Journey). The copy ends with the beginning devoted to Surat al-Kahf (The Cave). Presence of advertisements and a few interlinear and marginal notes, mainly corrections to the text.