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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. 660H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Cloth bindings (Binding) [Browse]
• Headbands (Binding) [Browse]

Summary note

A gloss on Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl. This section deals with Sūrat al-Nabāʼ-Sūrat al-Nās (LXXVIII-CXIV).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from lower edge of text block.
• A few marginal notes and glosses. List of sūrahs commented upon on fol. 1a. Before the colophon it is stated that the author composed his work 1137 [1725] and that this copy was made from the copy of Aḥmad al-Pīrtawi, a pupil of the author.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 303 + i ; catchwords ; folation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Text in red and commentary overlined in red ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon and the roman-alphabet letter "A") ; MS in good condition. MS is rare.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Shaʻbān 1138 (fol. 302b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حمدا لمن نزل النبأ لنبيه للانذار والتنبيه وصلاة وسلاما على النبى الوحيد وعلى كل من قيل فيه الولد سر ابيه وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الشيخ اسمعيل حقى البرسوى ...
• Colophon : تمت الکتابة في شهر شعبان المعظم المنتظم في سلك شهور سنة الف ومائة وثمان وثلثين من هجرة حبيب رب العالمين وصلى الله عليه وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين وعلى جميع الانبياء والمرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in green fabric over brown leather and marbled paper. Endbands.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Signature of Aḥmad Rashīd (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1289.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Ḥāshiyah ʻalá juzʼ al-Nabaʼ li-Ismāʻīl al-Ḥaqqī
• حاشية على جزء النبأ لاسماعيل الحقي

OCLC

1340420602

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