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Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Commentaries—History—10th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Second part of the tafsīr of Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī, comprising the text from Sūrat Maryam (19) to Sūrat al-Nās (114).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page by a later hand (fol. 1a).
• Incipit: سورة مريم ثمان وتسعون اية كلها مكية يسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين كهيعص قراء ابن كثير وعاصم فى رواية حفص بنصب الهاء والياء
• Explicit: سورة الناس مدنية وهى ست ايات بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قوله تعالى قل اعوذ بربّ الناس يقول استعيذ بخالق الناس ... [324أ] ... قال من لم يزعم انّهما من كتاب الله تعالى فعليه لعنة الله والملائكة اجمعين تم كتاب تفسير ابى الليث نصر بن ابراهبم السمرقندى
• Physical description: 24 lines per page. Written in small taʻlīq in black ink with use of red for overlining, re-inking and "maṭlab" on the margins. Light biscuit paper with pulp and thick laid lines visible. Occasional marginal annotation. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Fol. 1 and 324 consist of a leaf in European paper with watermark pasted on the recto and the verso respectively of an original folio. Some leaves apparently missing (see between fol. 13 and 14). Note on a modern piece of paper placed between fol. 3 and 4. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Raqm 43". Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (faulty). Water damage; mildew.
• Origin: Copy completed on 8 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 892 [March 4, 1487] (colophon, fol. 324a, followed by verses of poetry on the margin, 2 lines in Arabic, 2 lines in Persian).

Binding note

Unbound quires placed within a binding consisting of brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap, with yellow paper pasted on covers and envelope flap. Yellow paper doublure.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 321
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 196 (6/1) ; SI

Other format(s)

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

Other title(s)

• Tafsīr Abī al-Layth al-Samarqandī
• تفسير ابي الليث السمرقندي

OCLC

133509982

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