Item Summary

The third volume of a commentary on the Qurʼanic exegesis of Sūrah II:190 - 250.

Descriptive Information

Title
الجزء الثالث من كتاب البرهان في علوم القرآن / تأليف ابي الحسن علي بن ابراهيم الحوفي.
Transliterated Title
al-Juzʼ al-thālith min Kitāb al-Burhān fī ʻulūm al-Qurʼān / taʼlīf Abī al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ḥawfī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 640H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcg445cq84b
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1200-1299
Extent
200 leaves : paper ; 257 x 170 (180 x 110) mm. bound to 252 x 180 mm.
Provenance
Signature of Muṣṭafá ibn Yūsuf Afandī dated 1132 with his seal impression (fol. 1a). (Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1256.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, pp. 46/7.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 132.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, pp. 46/7.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 132.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Title also appears on upper edge of text block.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 200 + i ; first two quires numbered reflecting the number of sheets (4 and 8), thereafter quires signed: 9-15 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page.
Description: MS in good condition except worm-eaten and mended.
Origin: Probably from the XIIIth century.
Colophon: کتبه العبد الفقير الى رحمة الله تعالى عبدالله ابن جهل بن رسلان حامدا الله وشاکرًا ومصليا على نبيه محمد واله وصحبه ﮪ
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قوله عز وجل أشهر الحرام رالشهر الحرام والحرمات قصاص فمن اعتدي عليكم ...
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Cover severely damaged and repaired. Only lower cover and part of the flap edge remain.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
407

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4b31d48b-1431-45e5-a80a-e1a4415c2682/manifest