Item Summary

First volume of a commentary of the Qurʼān, up to the end of Sūrat al-Māʼidah (starts on fol. 168b).

Descriptive Information

Title
الجزء الاول من زاد المسير في علم التفسير / تصنيف الشيخ الامام العالم الحافظ الورع المتقن جمال الدين ابي الفرج عبد الرحمن بن علي ابن محمد بن الجوزي الواعظ البغدادي
Transliterated Title
al-Juzʼ al-awwal min Zād al-masīr fī ʻilm al-tafsīr / taṣnīf al-Shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ḥāfiẓ al-waraʻ al-muttaqin Jamāl al-Dīn Abī al-Faraj ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī Ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Jawzī al-Wāʻiẓ al-Baghdādī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 648H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc6w924p52m
Publisher
Baghdād, [1286 or 1287]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1286
Format
Manuscript
Extent
206 leaves: paper ; 255 x 175 (190 x 135) mm. bound to 255 x 190 mm.
Provenance
Erased seal on the margin of fol. 206a. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1273
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from illuminated title page (fol. 1a). The title also appears in the colophon (fol. 206a).
Title and table of contents by a later hand on the margins of fol. 1a. Title on the tail of the text block (hardly legible). Spine label (horizontal) with inscription "12" in Arabic numerals.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 206 ; 1¹⁰ (-1, before fol. 1) 2-20¹⁰ 21¹⁰ (-3, after fol. 206) ; the quires are numbered in black ink, using Arabic ordinals in the form "thānī (see fol. 10a) and "thāmin al-awwal" (see fol. 70a) ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 27 lines per page.
Description: Written in medium small script in black ink with use of larger script and red ink re-inking for headings. Dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible (frame-ruled).
Decoration: Illuminated title page (ʻunwān) in gold, white, black and blue (fol. 1a).
According to the title page and the colophon, copied by Idrīs ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Khāliq al-mutaṣawwif from an autograph in Baghdād, 685 [1286 or 7] (see fol. 1a and 206a).
Incipit: الحمد لله الدى شرفنا على الامم بالقرآن المجيد ودعانا بتوفيقه على الحكم ... لما كان القرآن العزيز اشرف العلوم كان الفهم بمعانىه اوفى الفهوم
Explicit: قوله لله ملك السموات والارض تنبيه على عبودية عيسى وتحريض على التعليق الآمل بالله وحده آخر تفسير المائدة وهو آخر الجزء الاول من كتاب زاد المسير فى علم التفسير يتلوه ان شاء الله تفسير سورة الانعام
Binding Note
Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a central blind-tooled roundel filled with a geometrical knotwork. Edges of cover covered with darker brown leather. Blue cloth doublure.

Discovery Information

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

Physical Characteristics

File Count
420

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/aeadb606-fe38-4d5a-b8b9-6070300a0f8b/manifest