Item Summary

Commentary on the Qurʼan up to the end of Sūrat al-Baqarah (Sūrah II).

Descriptive Information

Title
تفسير المولى ابو السعود على سورة البقرة.
Transliterated Title
Tafsīr al-Mawlá Abū al-Saʻūd ʻalá Sūrat al-Baqarah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 667H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcxd07h459p
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1631
Extent
154 leaves : paper ; 197-208 x 135-151 (170 x 108) mm bound to 206 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Muḥammad Numrānī?, Sulaymān al-Maḥāsinī dated [1]178 in Qusṭanṭīyah with his seal impression, another dated 1215 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1304.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Quire count (15) on folio 1a. Several short inscriptions on title page and on the folio following the colophon.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 154 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Text overlined in red ; a number of smaller leaves interspersed throughout MS ; watermarks (cross; other unidentified marks) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied 1041 by Ḥanīfī ibn Taymūr (fol. 154a).
Binding Note
Later? quarter-bound type II (without flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Cover in poor condition; MS pages used to create boards visible through damage to covers.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
318

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a178bf0b-6609-433e-87ae-99ca32eeb7f3/manifest