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. 639H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]

Summary note

The last part of a commentary on the Koran exegesis of Sūrahs XLIII - CII:2 (in part).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 2a).
• A few marginal notes. Illegible title appears on the lower edge of the text block. Traditions on title page and folio 1b.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 199 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 20 lines per page.
• Description: Lacking most iʻjām diacritical marks ; folios 1 and 2 later additions on different paper ; MS in fair condition, extensive staining, some pages mended.
• Origin: Probably from the XIVth century.
• Incipit: تفسير سورة الزخرف عن ابي بن کعب رضي الله عنه ...
• Ending: حتى زرتم المقابر

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and yellow paper. Upper cover missing.

Provenance

• Ownership signature of Muṣṭafá dated 1116 (fol. 2a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
• Ownership signature of Muṣṭafá dated 1116 (fol. 2a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1255.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 217.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 740, 742/3.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb al-Kashf wa-al-bayān ʻan tafsīr al-Qurʼān.
• کتاب الکشف والبيان عن تفسير القرآن.

OCLC

1340424784

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