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A two-volume commentary on the Qurʼan after the Hanafite school.
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Metadata
- Publisher
- [18th century?]
- People
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- Author
- Abū al-Saʻūd Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1492 or 1493-1574 or 1575
- ابو السعود محمد بن محمد، 1492 or 1493-1574 or 1575
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 665Hq
- Language
- Arabic
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from lower edge of text block.
- Marginal notes and summaries; evidently trimmed as some pages have folded edges to preserve notes. The work was composed for Sulaymān I 1520-1 566. It is stated in the colophon that the author completed the work in 1005 [1597]. This is undoubtedly a mistake, since the author died in 1574. List of contents for each volume on preliminary leaf.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 576 + i, ii + 570 + i ; catchwords ; vol. 2 has foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numberals ; both vols. have modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 27-33 lines per page ; partially frame-ruled in red and green (v. 1, up to f. 182).
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (later endpapers: eagle with roman-alphabet letters "GFA" or "LAF", coat-of-arms with a lion; text: countermark initials "AH"? and "BT"? with trefoil, unidentified circular mark) ; MS in good condition.
- Decoration: Illuminated headpiece of gold, blue, and black. Opening spread frame-ruled in gold (v. 1, f. 1b-2a)
- Origin: Probably from XVIIIth century.
- Incipit: سبحان من ارسل رسوله بالهدى ودين الحق وبين له من شعائر الشرائع ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الى رحمته ربه ال الهاوى ابو السعود ...
- Colophon : کتب المؤلف عفا الله تعالى عنه في آخر نسخة الاصل اتفق الفراغ من تسويد هاتيك الاوراق بتوفيق الله عز سلطانه ليلة الجمعة الاولى من شهر الله الحرام شهر شعبان الفرد العالم [لعام] الف وخمس حامدًا لله رب العالمين ومصليا على سيدنا محمد صلى الله تعالى عليه وعلى سائر الانبياء المرسلين والملائکة المقربين اجميعن وسلم تسليما کثيرا. تم
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in green fabric over leather covers with blind-stamped mandorla with pendants. Yellow paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Endbands.
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Item Summary
A two-volume commentary on the Qurʼan after the Hanafite school.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- تفسير ابى السعود.
- Transliterated Title
- Tafsīr Abī al-Saʻūd.
- Call Number
- Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 665Hq
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcpz50h8102
- Publisher
- [18th century?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1700-1799
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 2 volumes (576, 570 leaves : paper ; 290 x 185 (200-217 x 91-110) mm bound to 287 x 200 mm.
- Provenance
- Obscured ownership signature dated [1]250 (v. 1, f. 1a); seal impression: Sharīfah Khadījah (v. 2, f. 89a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1302.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 249.
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 122/3.
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 902.
- Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1699.
- Fleisher, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium Bibliothecae Regiae Dresdensis, 368.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from lower edge of text block.
- Marginal notes and summaries; evidently trimmed as some pages have folded edges to preserve notes. The work was composed for Sulaymān I 1520-1 566. It is stated in the colophon that the author completed the work in 1005 [1597]. This is undoubtedly a mistake, since the author died in 1574. List of contents for each volume on preliminary leaf.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 576 + i, ii + 570 + i ; catchwords ; vol. 2 has foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numberals ; both vols. have modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 27-33 lines per page ; partially frame-ruled in red and green (v. 1, up to f. 182).
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (later endpapers: eagle with roman-alphabet letters "GFA" or "LAF", coat-of-arms with a lion; text: countermark initials "AH"? and "BT"? with trefoil, unidentified circular mark) ; MS in good condition.
- Decoration: Illuminated headpiece of gold, blue, and black. Opening spread frame-ruled in gold (v. 1, f. 1b-2a)
- Origin: Probably from XVIIIth century.
- Incipit: سبحان من ارسل رسوله بالهدى ودين الحق وبين له من شعائر الشرائع ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الى رحمته ربه ال الهاوى ابو السعود ...
- Colophon : کتب المؤلف عفا الله تعالى عنه في آخر نسخة الاصل اتفق الفراغ من تسويد هاتيك الاوراق بتوفيق الله عز سلطانه ليلة الجمعة الاولى من شهر الله الحرام شهر شعبان الفرد العالم [لعام] الف وخمس حامدًا لله رب العالمين ومصليا على سيدنا محمد صلى الله تعالى عليه وعلى سائر الانبياء المرسلين والملائکة المقربين اجميعن وسلم تسليما کثيرا. تم
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in green fabric over leather covers with blind-stamped mandorla with pendants. Yellow paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Endbands.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 2
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/7c363c6d-1440-4f7f-b3a3-7b665a491d43/manifest