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. 666H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on the Qurʼan from Sūrat al-Māʼidah to the end of Sūrat Yūsuf (Sūrahs V-XII)

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 345 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 33 lines per page.
• Description: Text overlined in red ; MS by different hands ; MS in fair condition but water-stained with some worm damage.
• Origin: MS probably from XVIIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله ... الذين امنوا اوفوا بالعقود الوقا القيام بموجب العقد
• Colophon: والله تع اعلم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم

Binding note

Contemporaneous? half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Tan paper pastedowns. Spine has been replaced. Folios 1-20 and 321-345 have a series of holes along the inner edge of the paper, perhaps created when spine was replaced.

Provenance

Signature: Maḥsūnʹzādah marḥūm Muḥammad Afandī (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1303.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340425287

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