Item Summary

First volume of a commentary on the Qurʼān, comprising the text up to the end of Sūrah 18.

Descriptive Information

Title
المجلد الاول من جوامع الجامع / للامام ابي علي الطبرسي
Transliterated Title
al-Mujallad al-awwal min Jawāmiʻ al-jāmiʻ / lil-Imām Abī ʻAlī al-Ṭabarsī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 77Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/br86b619m
Publisher
[1343]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1343
Extent
i, 138, i leaves: paper ; 255 x 198 (160 x 130) mm. bound to 260 x 200 mm.
Provenance
The book was given by Abū al-Ḥasan Ḥrr(?) ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Ḥasanī al-Wāʻiẓ to Rūḥ al-Dīn Bāqir, 13 Jumādá al-Ūlá 961 (fol. 1a). Impression of a small square seal in red ink on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 515
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 405 (3/2) ; SI
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 138b).
Physical description: 26 lines per page. Written in small to medium small naskh in black ink. Dark cream paper, glossy, with laid lines visible. Ḥāshiyah on the margin. Majority of quaternions; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in Arabic numerals. Stained with humidity.
Two spine labels. One with title in Arabic script, reading : "Tafsīr Jawāmiʻ al-jāmiʻ j 1", the other with inscription in Roman script, reading: "Y27 1" (repeated on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover).
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed during the last night (salkh) of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 743 [May 1343] (fol. 138b).
Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله الذى اكرمنا بكتابه الكريم ومن علينا بالسبع المثانى والقران العظيم ... اما بعد فانى لما فرغت من كتابى الكبير فى التفسير الموسوم بجامع البيان
Explicit: ان الذين امنوا وعملوا الصالحات الى ولا يُشرك بعبادة ربّه احدًا الحول التحوّل يقال حال ... الكهف عند النوم الا تيقظ الساعة التى يريدها
Binding Note
Bound in dark blue-green leather. Outer border in fillets.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
143

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/26167832-897a-4ad3-b4f0-538cbf11e1df/manifest