Descriptive Information

Title

تفسير ابو الليث

Transliterated Title

Tafsīr Abū al-Layth.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 774Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/ms35tc23v

Publisher

[1328]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1328

Format

Manuscript

Extent

175, i leaves: paper ; 247 x 178 (187 x 132) mm. bound to 248 x 185 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 colophon (fol. 174b).

Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in clear medium small naskh in black ink (faded to brown), with use of red to overline the commented text ; yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah. Thick, soft cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Chiefly quaternions. Marginal annotations (mainly collation notes; gloss by another hand at the end of the copy). Stained with water.

Collation: Paper, fol. 175, i ; 1¹ (one leaf, fol. 1) 2-22⁸ 23⁸ (-2 at end of quire) i (later added fly-leaf ; European paper with watermark).

Origin: According to colophon, copied by Ismāʻīl ibn Yaʻqūb, and completed on 8 Rajab 728 [May 19, 1328] (fol. 175a).

Beginning as extant: \\ فصدقناهم ونودوا ونودوا ان تلكم الجنة قال بعضهم قبل ان يدخلوها قال لهم خزنة الجنة

Explicit: الى بيت المعمور حشو ذلك النور ملايكة يصلون ويستغفرون له حتى يستيقظ

Binding Note

Brown leather over paper pasteboards with a small central blind-stamped mandorla and an outer border consisting of blind fillets for upper and lower covers. Upper cover disbound. Spine broken.

Discovery Information

Subject

Qurʼan—Commentaries—History—10th century—Sources

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

181

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fdff0c9c-d00d-4ace-aef6-cc6f3f4614b7/manifest

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