Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Commentaries—History—15th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• Muhammad Shāh, Emperor of Delhi, 1702-1748 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic countries—17th century [Browse]
• Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic countries—17th century [Browse]

Summary note

A copy of Kāshifī's commentary on the Qurʼān, consisting of leaves from two separate manuscripts.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Physical description: 23-27 lines per page; on tan glazed, laid Arabic paper. The more elegant part of ms. (fol. 184-190, 193-208, 211-216, 226-231, 234-279) is written in neat naskh and framed in blue and gold. Remainder of ms. written in indifferent nastaʻliq, with some crossouts, and framed in blue and red. Both parts have rubrication and catchwords. Edges painted red and gold. Foliation in Arabic script indicates that leaves are from two separate manuscripts. Several lacunae; fol. 365-358 are blank leaves inserted at a lacuna. Many paper repairs and some damp staining; first two leaves ragged and detached. Mild insect damage.
• Decoration: Simple illuminated ʻunwān in gold and color on fol. 1b. Illuminated borders on fol. 324b-325a, 621b. Illuminations are all in poor condition: paper has been repaired and colors are somewhat smudged.
• Incipit: بعد از تمهيد قواعد محامد الهى و تاسيس مبانى ثناخوانى

Binding note

Plain boards; no spine.

Language note

Persian.

Provenance

On fol. 1a, owner's stamps of Muḥammad Shāh Pādishāh Ghāzī, dated 1134 H [1721 or 2; likely Muḥammad Shāh Rangīlā, Emperor of Delhi], and ʻAbd Muḥammad Sharīf, dated 1165 H [1751 or 2].

References

Storey, C. A. Persian literature, I, 12-13

Other title(s)

• Tafsīr-i Ḥusaynī
• تفسىر حسىنى

OCLC

820010025

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