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Subject(s)

• Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar -1286?—Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl [Browse]
• 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. 656H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A gloss on Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl. This section deals with Sūrahs LXXVIII - CXIV.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Title on lower edge of text block Tafsīr [...].
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 68 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (Britannia?; roman-alphabet letters "VB" with a clover between) ; MS in good condition except worm-eaten
• Origin: According to colophon copied by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī (fol. 68a). Probably from the XVIIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اصله اصله عن ما فحذف الالف حذفا کثيرا الى ان قل الاصل وسب الحذف المشار اليه ...
• Colophon: تم بعون الله وتوفيقه في [على] يد اضعف عباد الله احمد بن علي المنمنى [المتمني] رحمهما ربهما الغني

Binding note

Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Endbands. Possibly a type II binding with flap missing.

Provenance

Ownership signature: Bakr Afandī ibn Muṣṭafá al-Abdhakī with a seal impression dated 1258 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1248 [i.e. 1284]
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 477.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, pp. 167/8.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 836/7.
• Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 1304/5.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340421565

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