Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Commentaries—History—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. 672H [Browse]

Restrictions note

Access limited: Material extremely fragile; Apply to curator of manuscripts.

Summary note

Last volume of a Qurʼān commentary, containing part of Sūrat al-Muʼminūn to Sūrat al-Naṣr.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from leaf 181b by a later hand.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 181 ; catchwords, likely added by a later hand ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 30 lines per page.
• Description: MS in poor condition. Extensive damp staining, mildewed, numerous paper repairs, some insect damage. Several leaves at beginning and end of manuscript are partially worn away and particularly damaged.
• Incipit (Sūrat al-Nūr, leaf 14a):ومن سورة التي يذكر فيها النور مكية سورة يريد فريضة وحكم انزلناها وفرضناها يعني وبيناها وانزلنا فيها آيات بينات يعني عز وجل آيات القرآن

Binding note

Remnants of binding remain including sewing and part of multi-colored endband.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

843113736

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