Item Summary

Commentary on the Qurʼan. This copy begins with Sūrat Ibrāhīm, verse 27 (XIV:27) and ends with Sūrat al-Aḥzāb (XXXIII).

Descriptive Information

Title
[معالم التنزيل في تفسير القرآن الجليل]
Transliterated Title
[Maʻālim al-tanzīl fī tafsīr al-Qurʼān al-jalīl]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 206L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc0v838c87g
Publisher
[15th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1499
Format
Manuscript
Extent
256 leaves : paper ; 237 x 162 (180-190 x 115-130) mm bound to 230 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1264.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 256 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Marginal notes. Blue-pencilled note "B.M 9" (fol. 256b). Title on upper edge of text block.
Description: Text overlined with red ; some vowel signs ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVth century.
Beginning: ... عبد القاهر انا عبد الله بن محمد انا عيسى ...
Colophon: ... ان حصل منه تقصير فى تعض الطاعات وكان الله عفورا رحيما ...
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Paper pastedowns with block-pressed floral design. Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands

Physical Characteristics

File Count
524

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/51e28228-7077-4d88-ba55-17d84f25a8e0/manifest