Item Summary

An incomplete copy of al-Thaʻlabī's commentary on the Qurʼan containing mid-Sūrat Sabā - mid-Sūrat al-Ṭūr (Sūrahs XXXIV (in part) - LII (in part)).

Descriptive Information

Title
[الكشف والبيان عن تفسير القرآن]
Transliterated Title
[al-Kashf wa-al-bayān ʻan tafsīr al-Qurʼān]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 674H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dccc08hs32g
Publisher
[16th century]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1599
Format
Manuscript
Extent
216 leaves : paper ; 216 x 153 (165 x 111) mm bound to 202 x 160 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1321.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Folios disarranged.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 216 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Vowel signs ; MS in fair conditiion.
Origin: Probably from the XVIth century.
Incipit: بعوضة قط ولا ذباب ولا برغوث ولا عقرب ولاحية ان كان الركب ولياقون وفي ذيابهم القمل والدواب ...
Ending: وقال الضحاك لا يکذب بعضهم ويطوف
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and yellow paper. Yellow paper pastedowns. Cover loose.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
440

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/347c6356-5b08-42df-a30b-248b45795b94/manifest