Item Summary

According to F. Meier, Der Islam v. 24 (1937) p. 14sq. this is a continuation of Najm al-Dīn al-Kubrāʼs ʻAyn al-ḥayāh by ʻAlāʼ al-Dawlah al-Simnānī containing an introduction and commentary on Sūrah 1 and 52-114; the title Najm al-Qurʼān appears on fol. 17a. What follows agrees with ms. Damad Ibrahim 153, fol. la except that the present ms. purports to be a continuation of the commentary of Najm al-Dīn al-Dāyah, and not of al-Kubrá. Another title appears on fol. 9b, immediately before the beginning of the commentary on Sūrah 52: al-mujallad al-rābiʻ ʻashrīn min Kitāb Maṭlaʻ al-nuqṭah wa-majmaʻ al-lafẓ.

Descriptive Information

Title
نجم القرآن.
Transliterated Title
Najm al-Qurʼān.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2656Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/w6634740j
Publisher
Jumādá al-Akhir 1222 [August/September 1807]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1807
Format
Manuscript
Extent
110 leaves : paper ; 270 x 180 (196 x 120) mm.
Provenance
Stamp (fol. 1a and 109b). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 345.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from folio 17a.
Bookdealer's label: "ELS No. 1656" (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 110 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Overlining in red ; watermarks (roman-alphabet lettering "VG", eagle?) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to the colophon copied Jumādá al-Akhir 1222 by Walī al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad al-Qasṭamūnī (fol. 109b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين قال الشيخ العالم العظيم مظهر الحق سلطان ... ابو المكارم احمد بن محمد بن احمد ... السمنانى ... الصنف الاول فى الاصطلاحات التى لا بد للمستفيد المسترشد من معرفتها ...
Colophon: تمت هذه الكتاب من يد اضعف الفقير السيد ولى الدين بن محمد قسطمونى غفر الله ذنوبها و؟بها بعد العشا فى شهر جمادى الاخر سنه اثنى وعشرون وماتين والف ساكره بمدرسه حراد باثا
Binding Note
Unbound. Remnants of binding along spine.

Discovery Information

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

Physical Characteristics

File Count
220

Institutional Information

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

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