Details

Subject(s)

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

Scribe

• Jābir ibn Ibrāhīm, active 16th century [Browse]
• Fīshī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, active 16th century [Browse]

Related name

• جابر بن ابراهيم، active 16th century [Browse]
• فيشي، محمد بن احمد، active 16th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 652H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A famous commentary on the Qurʼan.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (vol. 2, fol. 202a).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Variations of title written on edges of text blocks.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 244, i + 202 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 31 lines per page ; volume 2 frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (later flyleaves only: lion, shield with a face-in-the-moon, three crescents) ; MS in good condition except worm-eaten and mended.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 925 by Jābir ibn Ibrāhīm (vol. 1, fol. 244a) and by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Fīshī al-Shāfiʻī (vol. 2, fol. 202a)
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... الحمد لله الذى نزل الفرقان على عبده ليكون للعالمين نذيرا فتحدى باقصر سورة من سوره ...
• Explicit: تم النصف الاول من انوار التنزيل في اسرار التاويل بعون الله تعالى وحسن توفيقه على يد العبد الفقير الى ربه الكريم جابر بن ابرهيم غفر الله له ولوالديه ... سنه خمس وعشرين وتسع والحمد لله تعالى[؟] -- تم انوار التنزيل واسرار التاويل كتابه علي يد العبد الفقير المعترف بالعجز والتقصير محمد بن احمد الفيشى الشافعي غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه وللمسلمين اجمعين ولمن دعا لهم بالمغمرة امين وكان الفراغ من كتابته في يوم الاثنين المبارك حادي عشرين شهر ربيع الثاني سنة عشين [عشرين] وخمس وتسعمايه احسن الله عاقبتها بمحمد واله وسلم وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل واحمد لله وحده

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Gold?-stamped mandorla with blind-tooled edging in covers of both volumes. Similar decoration on flap. Endbands.

Provenance

Seal impression on fol. 1a of both volumes. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1280.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• انوار التنزيل
• تفسير انوار التنزيل جلد اول

Title on lower edge of text block, volume 2

• Anwār al-tanzīl

Title on flap label, volume 1

• Tafsīr Anwār al-tanzīl jild awwal

OCLC

1348886668

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