Descriptive Information

Title

الثاني من معالم التنزيل

Transliterated Title

al-Thānī min Maʻālim al-tanzīl.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1336Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/8w32r824q

Publisher

[between 14--? and 1450]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1400-1450

Format

Manuscript

Extent

227 leaves : paper ; 210 x 157 (150 x 115) mm. bound to 210 x 157 mm.

Provenance

Waqf? statement, partly erased, in the name of Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar ibn Ismāʻīl ibn Aḥmad ibn al-shaykh Muḥyī al-Dīn ... ibn ...? Ibrāhīm ibn Adham (fol. 1a). Three reading statements on fol. 226a: 1) Reading and collating statement dated 17 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 866? [Jan. 1462], written by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Zayd, mentioning also al-Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn al-faqīh al-fāḍil Abū al-maḥāsin Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Mardāwī thumma al-Dimashqī al-Ṣāliḥī al-Ḥanbalī (with note by a later hand on the margin about Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad) ; 2) reading statement mentioning the names of Shaykh ʻIzz al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-marḥūm qāḍī al-quḍāh Kamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Jaʻfarī al-Nābulusī and ʻAbd Allāh ibn Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Zayd al-..., signed ʻAlī ibn al-Bahā al-Baghdādī ; 3) reading statement dated 12 Ramaḍān 906 [April 1501] signed Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd al-Hādī.

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 327

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from illuminated title page (fol. 1a).

Incipit: سورة ال عمران مدنية قوله تعالى الم الله لا اله الّا هو قال الكلبى والوبيع بن آنس وغيرهما نزلت هذه الآيات

Explicit: يومًا ترجعون فيه الى الله فعاش بعدها احد وعشرين يومًا والله سبحانه اعلم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد النبى الامى وعلى آله وصحبه وسلّم

Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in round medium large naskh in black ink with use of red for commented text. The text is framed within a gilt frame outlined in black with blue outline on fol. 1b-2a. Cream paper with laid and chain lines visible (a few leaves darker) ; frame-ruled. Chiefly quinions. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a. Inscriptions on the doublure of the upper cover.

Decoration: Illuminated title-page (ʻunwān), apparently left unfinished. Cartouche in gold, white, black, blue, and red, with title written in white on a gold and blue ground. Roundel in gold outlined in black on the left margin. Six lobed roundel in gold outlined in black encompassing a space left blank underneath the cartouche. The cartouche and roundels are outlined in blue ink.

Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the doublure of the upper cover: "Raqm 346".

Collation: Paper, fol. 227 ; 1¹⁰ (-2, before fol. 1) 2-22¹⁰ 23¹⁰ (-1, end of quire) ; the quires are numbered using Arabic numerals.

Origin: Collation statement dated last decade of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 854 [Dec. 1450] (margin of colophon, fol. 225b).

Binding Note

Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers are similarly blind and gold-tooled with a central panel consisting of a six lobed roundel made of several intertwined fillets. The spaces between the fillets are filled with impressions of a small gold stamp (gold now almost completely wanting). The central panel is outlined by a frame of several fillets, with the inner corners outlined by similar fillets and filled with impressions of gold stamp (gold wanting). Outer border of fillets and a running pattern of impressions of a stamp with floral pattern. Embossed leather doublure. Traces of a now wanting fore-edge flap and envelope flap.

Discovery Information

Subject

Muslim scholars—Certification—History—15th century—Sources

Muslim scholars—Certification—History—16th century—Sources

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Qurʼan—Commentaries—History—12th century—Sources

Physical Characteristics

File Count

233

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2fdd1f21-d5b5-4932-b488-4242caf75de6/manifest

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