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. 654Hq [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]
• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]

Summary note

Volume 1 of al-Bayḍāwiʼs Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl, dealing with Sūrat al-Fātiḥah (I) - Sūrat Sūrat al-Kahf (XVIII).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preface (fol. 1b).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. The paper containing the text is older than that of the margins, into which it has been inserted.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 300 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red, blue, black and silver.
• Description: Text in red and commentary (with vowel signs) in black ; overlining in red ; MS in good condition, mended.
• Decoration: Elaborate illuminated headpiece in gold, orange, blue, purple,white and black. Text on opening spread within clouds on gold ground with yellow, red and blue flowers (fol. 1b-2a).
• Origin: Text is probably from XVIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي نزل الفرقان علي عبده ليكون للعالمين ... وبعد فان اعظم العلوم مقدارا وارقمها شرفا ومنارا علم التفسير ...
• Ending: تم اخرها كانت له نورا من قونه الى قدمه من قراها كلها كانت له نورا من الارض الى السماء النور ملئكه ... من قرا سورة الكهف متى تمت سوره الكهف بعون الله

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and marbled paper.

Provenance

Obscured ownership signature dated Rabīʻ II 1229 and seal impressions (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1281.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1420893492

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