Item Summary

The part of the famous commentary on the Koran exegeting Surahs I - IV. End of text says "wa-yalīhi Sūrat al-Māyidah"

Descriptive Information

Title
الجزء الاول من الكشاف عن حقائق غوامض التنزيل وعيون الاقاويل في وجوه التأويل / تصنيف محمود بن عمر الزمخشري.
Transliterated Title
al-Juzʼ al-awwal min al-Kashshāf ʻan ḥaqāʼiq ghawāmiḍ al-tanzīl wa-ʻuyūn al-aqāwīl fī wujūh al-taʼwīl / taṣnīf Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar al-Zamakhsharī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 645H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcqv33s735t
Publisher
[14th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1300-1399
Format
Manuscript
Extent
(1), 171, (1) leaves : paper ; 250 x 176 (207 x 130) mm bound to 247 x 177 mm.
Provenance
Signatures: Muṣṭafá Asmaʻī and Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥusām al-Rawsī al-madʻū Barakahʹzādah (fol. (1)a), obscured signatures dated 914 and 945[?], Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbbās (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1267.
Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), II, pp. 509/10.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 179-83.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, pp. 189-92.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 769-76, 788.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses; marginal summaries. Illegible writing on lower edge of text block. Partial list of sūrahs on fol. (1)a. Notes on preliminary leaf about the birth and death of the author in 467 and 538 respectively. Comments on Sūrat al-Nisāʼ (fol. (1)b.
Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 171 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; some vowel signs ; MS in good condition except worm-eaten and mended.
Origin: MS probably from the XIVth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ولي الحول والقوه ... الحمد لله الذي انزل القرآن کلاما مؤلفا منظما ونزله بحسب المصالج منجما ...
Ending: وکان في مشيئة الله من الذين يتجاوز عنهم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم
Binding Note
Later? type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Gold-stamped mandorla with pendants and gold-tooled decorative edging. Leather doublure. Upper cover is missing, spine is mended. Possibly type II binding with flap removed.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Gold tooled bindings
Leather doublures

Physical Characteristics

File Count
352

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/dfdcec10-17b2-4314-a1f3-a044a4e33239/manifest