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Subject(s)

• Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar -1286?—Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl [Browse]
• 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. 657H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• tuǧras [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl, a commentary on the Qurʼān by al-Bayḍawī. Comprises the commentary of sūrah 1-2:134.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from inscription on fol.1a (later hand).
• Several inscriptions on fol. (1)-(4)b and 1a, including titles, prayers, and ownership statements. On fol. (3)b-(4)a note to the effect that this book should be kept from the ignorants, mentioning Iskandar and using magic formulae and numbers speculation. Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms) on fol. 1a.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 4, 157 ; catchwords ; chiefly quinions ; collational note on fol. 1a mentioning the number of quires (juzʼ) as being 16 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 29 lines per page.
• Description: Written in 4 mm. script in black ink with use of red. Laid paper with chain lines in groups of three ; stained with humidity.
• Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on 1 Shaʻbān 949 [Nov. 10, 1542] in Brūsā [Bursa] (fol. 150a).
• Incipit: بسم ... رب تمم بالخير الحمد لله الذى خلق النسم ورزق القسم ... اما بعد فان من القضايا المقررة عند ارباب الالباب

Binding note

Modern binding. The previous binding is kept with the ms. (only lower cover and flap extant; red-brown leather over paper pasteboards with blind stamped mandorla and medallion).

Provenance

Ownership statement in the name of ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn Saʻadī, dated Shaʻbān 1042, with his seal on fol. (4)a (repeated on fol. 1a). Seal in the name of Shaykh ʻUthmān; tughra (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1283
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 417 ; SI

Other format(s)

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

Other title(s)

• حاشىۀ منلا خسرو على القاضى
• حاشىۀ منلا خسرو على تفسىر القاضى البىضاوى
• حاشية على انوار التنزيل واسرار التأويل

Title from inscription on fol. (1)a (later hand)

• Ḥāshiyah-ʼi Munlā Khusraw ʻalá al-Qāz̤ī
• Ḥāshiyah-ʼi Munlā Khusraw ʻalá tafsīr al-Qāz̤ī al-Bayz̤āvī

Title in Hitti, P. Garrett coll

• Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl

OCLC

244564844

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