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الجزء الرابع من تفسير الوسيط / للواحدي رحمه الله تعالى.
al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ min Tafsīr al-wasīṭ / lil-Wāḥidī raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá.
1257
Fourth and last volume of a commentary of the Qurʼān, from Sūrat Ṣād to Sūrat al-Nās (38-114).
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- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 644H
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- Arabic
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Item Summary
Fourth and last volume of a commentary of the Qurʼān, from Sūrat Ṣād to Sūrat al-Nās (38-114).
Descriptive Information
- Title
- الجزء الرابع من تفسير الوسيط / للواحدي رحمه الله تعالى.
- Transliterated Title
- al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ min Tafsīr al-wasīṭ / lil-Wāḥidī raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 644H
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dc9z9039852
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1257
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 187 leaves: paper ; 250 x 170 (180 x 120) mm. bound to 260 x 180 mm.
- Provenance
- Several reading and ownership statements on fol. 1a. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1260
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Collation: Paper, fol. 187 ; 1¹⁰ (-1, before fol. 1) 2-18¹⁰ 19¹⁰ (-2, after fol. 187) ; some quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see "tāsiʻ" on fol. 80a ; the next quire is numbered "ḥādī ʻashar"!) ; the central bifolio of each quire is marked by signs in the upper right corner of the verso and the lower left corner of the next recto (see fol. 154b-155a). Chiefly quinions.
- Layout: 21 lines per page.
- Description: Written in medium large script in black ink (faded to brown). Dark cream paper, glossy, with laid lines and pulp visible.
- Origin: Copy completed in Salamīyah on 22 Shawwāl 655 by ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn Saʻd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī(?), who copied the text for himself (li-nafsih) (colophon, fol. 187b).
- Incipit: سورة ص اخبرنا ابو سعيد حمد بن علي الختان حدثنا محمد بن جعفر بن مطر ... قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم من قرا سورة ص اعطي من الاجر
- Explicit: وقرأت قل هو الله احد وقل اعوذ برب الفلق وقل اعوذ برب الناس سكن(؟) او ذهب تم الكتاب
- Binding Note
- Lower and upper covers made of brown leather over paper pasteboards. Both covers have an elaborate blind tooled and gold painted panel, with a central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis inscribed within a large borderconsisting of several fillets and running patterns. Leather doublure. Upper cover damaged (paper pasteboard apparent) ; spine wanting.
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Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 382
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9ec60579-5730-4a78-a79b-785ed69395d3/manifest