Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Commentaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Banī Salāmah, Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad, active 16th century [Browse]

Related name

• بني سلامة، صالح بن محمد، active 16th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 647Hq [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

A section of the second part and another of the third part of a commentary on the Qurʼan covering Sūrahs II:250 (in part) - IV:126 (in part) and V:1 (in part) and 2 (in part).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page of part 3 (fol. 119a).
• A few marginal notes and glosses. MS incomplete at beginning and end. Ḥājjī Khalīfah attributes the work to Abū Jaʻfar ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī 385-460 [995-1067].
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 189 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 27 lines per page.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (anchor; roman-alphabet countermark initials) ; MS in fair condition except several folios are defective with some loss of text.
• Origin: According to colophon of part 2, copy completed Sunday 23 Rajab 1001 by Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd AIlāh ibn Maḥmūd al-Zabīdī al-Najafī, known as Banī Salāmah (fol. 119b).
• Beginning: من الکاذب في قوله عن الحسن وکان سبب ابتلاهم ...
• Ending: ... المشهود له وفقر المشهود عليه فلايقيم الشهادة ... الشهادة الفقير على الغني تهاونا للفقير

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1272.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 400/401.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 803.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340421228

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