Item Summary

Second volume of Qurʼanic commentary by al-Ṣafāqisī covering Sūrat al-Anbiyāʼ (Sūrah 21) to the end of the Qurʼān. Bookdealer believes it to be the abridgement by al-Ṣarkhadī.

Descriptive Information

Title
الثاني من اعراب القرآن العظيم / للشيخ ابراهيم بن محمد السفاقسى.
Transliterated Title
al-Thānī min Iʻrāb al-Qurʼān al-ʻaẓīm / lil-Shaykh Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Safāqisī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 289Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/ng451m106
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1608
Extent
244 leaves : paper ; 207 x 153 (158 x 101) mm bound to 205 x 162 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: some obscured, ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī ibn Aḥmad Zuwayn dated 1166 (fol. 1a).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 391.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Biographical information about al-Ṣafāqisī, notes on coverage and extent of the volume and a study? note with a seal impression (fol. 1a). Title also on lower edge of text block. Bookdealer's inserts and label: "ELS No. 289" (pastedowns).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 244 ; quires signed: 1-25 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (anchor) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Tuesday 17 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1017 by Ṣāliḥ ibn Yaḥyá al-Dīrī al-ʻAbīsī (fol. 243a).
Brockelmann, GAL, II, 321 (3: no. 1); S II, 350.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله ... لا يسبقونه . بکسر الباء وقرئ بضمها من سابقني فسبقته اسبقه والجمله في موضع رفع صفة ...
Colophon: نجز التلخيص بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه يوم الثلاثا حادى عشر شهر ربيع الاول من شهور سنه سبعه عشرة بعد الف احسن الله ختامها على يد افقر بالورى صالح بن يحيى الديري العبيسي عامله الله تعالى باطفه الخفى وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and yellow paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
249

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/498adcb1-f798-4f90-956b-c175f50a3c83/manifest