Descriptive Information

Title

الجزء الثاني من تفسير ابي الليث السمرقندي

Transliterated Title

al-Juzʼ al-thānī min Tafsīr Abī al-Layth al-Samarqandī.

Call Number

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2537Yq

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/794080760

Publisher

[1487]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1487

Format

Manuscript

Extent

330 leaves: paper ; 280 x 180 (200 x 125) mm. bound to 280 x 200 mm.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 321

Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 196 (6/1) ; SI

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from title page by a later hand (fol. 1a).

Incipit: سورة مريم ثمان وتسعون اية كلها مكية يسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين كهيعص قراء ابن كثير وعاصم فى رواية حفص بنصب الهاء والياء

Explicit: سورة الناس مدنية وهى ست ايات بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قوله تعالى قل اعوذ بربّ الناس يقول استعيذ بخالق الناس ... [324أ] ... قال من لم يزعم انّهما من كتاب الله تعالى فعليه لعنة الله والملائكة اجمعين تم كتاب تفسير ابى الليث نصر بن ابراهبم السمرقندى

Physical description: 24 lines per page. Written in small taʻlīq in black ink with use of red for overlining, re-inking and "maṭlab" on the margins. Light biscuit paper with pulp and thick laid lines visible. Occasional marginal annotation. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Fol. 1 and 324 consist of a leaf in European paper with watermark pasted on the recto and the verso respectively of an original folio. Some leaves apparently missing (see between fol. 13 and 14). Note on a modern piece of paper placed between fol. 3 and 4. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Raqm 43". Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (faulty). Water damage; mildew.

Origin: Copy completed on 8 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 892 [March 4, 1487] (colophon, fol. 324a, followed by verses of poetry on the margin, 2 lines in Arabic, 2 lines in Persian).

Binding Note

Unbound quires placed within a binding consisting of brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap, with yellow paper pasted on covers and envelope flap. Yellow paper doublure.

Discovery Information

Subject

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Qurʼan—Commentaries—History—10th century—Sources

Physical Characteristics

File Count

340

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/11abeb0a-2f22-4381-bfd4-470a12621cf4/manifest

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