Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Commentaries—History—12th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

First volume of a commentary on the Qurʼān, comprising the text from the beginning to the end of sūrah 3.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from inscription on fol. 1a (other hand from "al-mashhūr bi-").
• Physical description: 29 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red. Fol. 1 is a later added leaf with inscriptions (European paper). Ḥāshiyah on the margin. Several inscriptions and short excerpts on fol. 2a and 242b. Title on tail of tex block (hardly legible). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Inner margin worm-eaten ; stained with humidity ; mildew.
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Tafsīr 61". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 247".
• Origin: According to colophon, copied by Laṭīf ibn ʻAlī ibn Masʻūd for (li-ajli) al-Imām al-fāḍil ... (?) on 4 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 728 [Jan. 18, 1328] (fol. 242b, followed by verses of poetry).
• Copyist: Laṭīf ibn ʻAlī ibn Masʻūd.
• Patronage: ...? (see fol. 242b).
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذى انزل القران شفا ورحمة وفضلا ونعمة ... قال الشيخ الامام الاجل ... نجم الحق والدين عمر بن محمد بن احمد بن اسماعيل بن محمد بن على بن لقمان النسفى رضى الله عنه طال ما سالتمونى معاشر اهل العلم اتاكم الله
• Explicit: اسم سورة ال عمران فى التورية طيبة والله اعلم

Binding note

Quarter bound in paper and brown leather. Marbled paper pasted on the covers. Spine badly damaged.

Provenance

From the books of Aḥmad Najīb (ownership statement dated 1289 H. on fol. 1a). Impression of a seal on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 328
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 428/III ; SI

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

كتاب التيسير في التفسير

Title in GAL

• Kitāb al-taysīr fī al-tafsīr

OCLC

213298893

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