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. 645H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]
• Leather doublures [Browse]

Summary note

The part of the famous commentary on the Koran exegeting Surahs I - IV. End of text says "wa-yalīhi Sūrat al-Māyidah"

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses; marginal summaries. Illegible writing on lower edge of text block. Partial list of sūrahs on fol. (1)a. Notes on preliminary leaf about the birth and death of the author in 467 and 538 respectively. Comments on Sūrat al-Nisāʼ (fol. (1)b.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 171 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; some vowel signs ; MS in good condition except worm-eaten and mended.
• Origin: MS probably from the XIVth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ولي الحول والقوه ... الحمد لله الذي انزل القرآن کلاما مؤلفا منظما ونزله بحسب المصالج منجما ...
• Ending: وکان في مشيئة الله من الذين يتجاوز عنهم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم

Binding note

Later? type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Gold-stamped mandorla with pendants and gold-tooled decorative edging. Leather doublure. Upper cover is missing, spine is mended. Possibly type II binding with flap removed.

Provenance

Signatures: Muṣṭafá Asmaʻī and Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥusām al-Rawsī al-madʻū Barakahʹzādah (fol. (1)a), obscured signatures dated 914 and 945[?], Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbbās (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1267.
• Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), II, pp. 509/10.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 179-83.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, pp. 189-92.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 769-76, 788.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340420926

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