Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Commentaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 648H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Doublures [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Summary note

First volume of a commentary of the Qurʼān, up to the end of Sūrat al-Māʼidah (starts on fol. 168b).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from illuminated title page (fol. 1a). The title also appears in the colophon (fol. 206a).
• Title and table of contents by a later hand on the margins of fol. 1a. Title on the tail of the text block (hardly legible). Spine label (horizontal) with inscription "12" in Arabic numerals.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 206 ; 1¹⁰ (-1, before fol. 1) 2-20¹⁰ 21¹⁰ (-3, after fol. 206) ; the quires are numbered in black ink, using Arabic ordinals in the form "thānī (see fol. 10a) and "thāmin al-awwal" (see fol. 70a) ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 27 lines per page.
• Description: Written in medium small script in black ink with use of larger script and red ink re-inking for headings. Dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible (frame-ruled).
• Decoration: Illuminated title page (ʻunwān) in gold, white, black and blue (fol. 1a).
• According to the title page and the colophon, copied by Idrīs ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Khāliq al-mutaṣawwif from an autograph in Baghdād, 685 [1286 or 7] (see fol. 1a and 206a).
• Incipit: الحمد لله الدى شرفنا على الامم بالقرآن المجيد ودعانا بتوفيقه على الحكم ... لما كان القرآن العزيز اشرف العلوم كان الفهم بمعانىه اوفى الفهوم
• Explicit: قوله لله ملك السموات والارض تنبيه على عبودية عيسى وتحريض على التعليق الآمل بالله وحده آخر تفسير المائدة وهو آخر الجزء الاول من كتاب زاد المسير فى علم التفسير يتلوه ان شاء الله تفسير سورة الانعام

Binding note

Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a central blind-tooled roundel filled with a geometrical knotwork. Edges of cover covered with darker brown leather. Blue cloth doublure.

Provenance

Erased seal on the margin of fol. 206a. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1273

Other format(s)

• Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

85863952

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