Item Summary

An exegesis of Sūrah XLIV:1-15 and a discussion of the middle night in the month of Shaʻbān.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب تفسير سورة الدخان وفضل ليلة شعبان المكرم.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Tafsīr Sūrat al-Dukhān wa-faḍl laylat Shaʻbān al-mukarram.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 952H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcgq67k369p
Publisher
8 [Dhū] al-Ḥijjah 1116 [April 3, 1705?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1705
Format
Manuscript
Extent
26 leaves : paper ; 202 x 153 (155 x 100) mm bound to 200 x 154 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1328.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, p. 17.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. Colophon followed by a short addition from Shihāb al-Dīn al-Falyūtī "fī nukatihi wa-nawādirihi muhimmat sabīl Ibn ʻAbbās" (fol. 25a-b). Short fāʼidah on folio 26a.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 26 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Thursday 8 [Dhū] al-Ḥijjah 1116 by Muḥammad ibn Yūnus al-Naqīb (fol. 25a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله المتحكم بكلام ... وبعد فهذه نبذة عذبة المنهل في ذکر ليلة نصف شعبان المفضل ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من هذه النسخة المبارکة يوم الخميس ثامن شهر الحجة من شهور سنة الف وماية وستت [ستة] عشر من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام والحمد لله رب العالمين على يد فقير خلق الله واحقرهم الفقيرالمعترف بالذنب والتقصير محمد بن يونس النقيب بالازهرغفرالله له ولوالديه ولمن دعا له بالمغفرة امين والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Later? quarter-bound type III (without flap) limp binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Tan paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan Sūrat al-Dukhān 1-15—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Laylat al-Barāʼah—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
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Physical Characteristics

File Count
60

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/aece28a9-dcce-4579-a16d-b9b5757f14a3/manifest