Details

Subject(s)

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

Summary note

Treatise on hermeneutics and a commentary on Sūrah 1-4:84; only the first volume was completed, with the other three left in draft form.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from cover label by a later hand.
• Physical description: 22 lines per page; written in naskh in black on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. Rubrication and catchwords. Fol. 1 is a replacement. Some staining, smudging and paper repairs, particularly on fol. 2-16 (where there is occasional loss of text), 268-269. Otherwise in good condition.
• Origin: 8 Dhū al-Qaʻdah [1]144 H [3 May 1732], by ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad (fol. 269b).
• Incipit: نبدا و الله عليم حكيم زينة فاتحه هر كتاب و زيور خاتمة هر خطاب

Binding note

Full brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-tooled fillets; yellow-brown leather doublures. Spine repaired with cloth.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

On fol. 1a, birth records dated 1316 H and 1322 H.

References

Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), V, 265-6

Other title(s)

جواهر التفسير لتحفة الامير

Title in Āghā Buzurg

• Jawāhir al-tafsīr li-tuḥfat al-amīr

OCLC

805417507

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