Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Commentaries—History—15th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic Empire—14th century [Browse]
• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic Empire—15th century [Browse]

Contains

• Suyūṭī, 1445-1505. Tafsīr al-Jalālayn. [Browse]
• سيوطي. تفسير الجلالين [Browse]
• Kemalpaşazade, 1468 or 9-1534. Tafsīr. Selections. [Browse]

Summary note

Elegant copy of the Tafsīr al-Jalālayn.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from illuminated title page (fol. 1a).
• Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh. The Qurʼanic text is written in red, the commentary in black. Light cream paper, glossy, with laid lines and chain lines in groups of two and three visible. Occasional marginal annotation, including notes in Persian (see fol. 10a) and notes attributed to Tafsīr al-ʻAllāmah Ibn Kamāl Pāshā (see fol. 15b).
• Chiefly quinions. The quires are numbered using Arabic numerals.
• Decoration: Illuminated title page on fol. 1a, executed in gold, red, blue, and green. A panel outlined in blue with flecks developing from each outer corner is divided in two uneven parts. The upper part bears the title written in white on a blue ground with a rinceau in gold, in a cartouche on a red and gold ground. Small roundel in gold and red outlined in blue on the left margin. The lower part occupies 4/5th of the panel. This lower part is defined by green, gold, and blue lines and has a central lobed roundel outlined in blue with flecks and four rosaces in each corner. The ground is left plain. The roundel bears the statement of authority.
• Origin: The copy is not dated, but the name of the copyist is given as Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Manṣūr, known as Ibn al-ʻAshrah. The illuminated title page, paper, and script, suggest Egypt or Syria, 14th-15th cent.
• Incipit: بسم ... وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم ابدا الحمد لله حمدا موافقا لنعمه مكافيا لمزيده والصلاة والسلام ... هذا ما اشتدت اليه حاجة الراغبين فى تكملة تفسير القران ... سورة البقرة ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الله اعلم بمراده بذلك ذلك اى هذا
• Explicit: الضالين وهم النصارى ونكتة البدل افادت ان المهتدين ليسوا يهودا ولا نصارى والله اعلم والحمد لله وحده اخر ما وجد بخط العلامة جلال الدين المحلى الانصارى الشافعى غفر الله له ولوالديه ولكاتبه احمد بن محمد بن محمد بن على بن منصور الشهير بابن العشرة

Binding note

Modern library binding.

Provenance

Several partially erased ownership statements on fol. 1a, one in the name of [...] ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ [...] bi-al-Jāmiʻ al-kabīr ; one dated 1151 H. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 399

Other format(s)

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

OCLC

236486707

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