Item Summary

Incomplete copy of a commentary on the Qurʼān.

Descriptive Information

Title
[درة التنزيل وغرة التأويل]
Transliterated Title
[Durrat al-tanzīl wa-ghurrat al-taʼwīl]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1874Y
Identifier
ark:/88435/dr26z101p
Publisher
13 Jumādá al-ūlá [6]71 [December 13, 1272]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1272
Format
Manuscript
Extent
18 leaves : paper ; 192 x 140 (170 x 118) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Brockelmann, GAL, S I, 491 (1b: no. 2)
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 323
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. fragment.
Beginning: ... يسر ومريم لان الذكر المتقدم انما هو على لفظ المخبر عن نفسه كقوله كلا سنكتب ما يقول ونمد له من العذاب مدا ونرثه ما بقوله وما يابينا فردا ...
Title of work supplied by cataloger based on comparison with edition of al-Iskāfī's Durrat al-tanzīl wa-ghurrat al-taʼwīl.
Some marginal notes. Inscription on fol. 18b.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 18 ; catchwords in black ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 35-37 lines per page.
Description: Text in brown ; MS in fair condition with some staining and some folios are worm-eaten.
Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 13 Jumādá al-ūlá [6]71. (fol. 18a).
Colophon: وقع الفراغ من ليلة الثلاثا ثالت عشر من جمدى الاولى سنة احد وسبعين وكانه للهجرية النبوية صلى الله على صاحبها وسلم تسليما كثيرا
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
23

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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