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. 640H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]

Summary note

The third volume of a commentary on the Qurʼanic exegesis of Sūrah II:190 - 250.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Title also appears on upper edge of text block.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 200 + i ; first two quires numbered reflecting the number of sheets (4 and 8), thereafter quires signed: 9-15 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page.
• Description: MS in good condition except worm-eaten and mended.
• Origin: Probably from the XIIIth century.
• Colophon: کتبه العبد الفقير الى رحمة الله تعالى عبدالله ابن جهل بن رسلان حامدا الله وشاکرًا ومصليا على نبيه محمد واله وصحبه ﮪ
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قوله عز وجل أشهر الحرام رالشهر الحرام والحرمات قصاص فمن اعتدي عليكم ...

Binding note

Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Cover severely damaged and repaired. Only lower cover and part of the flap edge remain.

Provenance

Signature of Muṣṭafá ibn Yūsuf Afandī dated 1132 with his seal impression (fol. 1a). (Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1256.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, pp. 46/7.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 132.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, pp. 46/7.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 132.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb al-Burhān fī ʻulūm al-Qurʼān
• كتاب البرهان في علوم القرآن

OCLC

1340422381

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