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تفسير القرآن العظيم / تأليف ابي عبد الله محمد بن علاي الدين المصري الشافعي.
Tafsīr al-Qurʼān al-ʻaẓīm / taʼlīf Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʻAlāy al-Dīn al-Miṣrī al-Shāfiʻī.
1700-1799
A commentary on the Qurʼan. The first volume deals with Sūrahs I-VI, volume II deals with Sūrahs VII-XVIII:77, and volume III deals with Sūrahs XVIII:78 to the end.
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- Publisher
- [18th century]
- People
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- Author
- Shams al-Dīn al-Bābilī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn, 1591 or 1592-1666 or 1667
- شمس الدين البابلي، محمد بن علاء الدين، 1591 or 1592-1666 or 1667
- Related Name
- طباخ، يوسف بن احمد، active 18th century
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 669H
- Language
- Arabic
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (vol. 1, fol. 1a).
- Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. After the colophon there is a statement that the fourth volume was completed from the copy in the Khedivial Library, Cairo, though the three present volumes contain the whole work. It is stated in the preface that the author in composing his work depended on many commentaries, especially that of Ibn Faraḥ al-Qurṭubī, 671 [1272/3]. Volume 3 has label on spine.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. (1), 481, 296, (1), 339 ; first 10 quires of volume one signed (1-10) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 19-25 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; MS is in different hands and on different kinds of paper ; fols. 1-93 in volume 1, and 329-332, 335-338 in volume 3 are later replacements ; watermarks (v. 1, 1-93: roman-alphabet letters "BG", shield with a face-in-the-moon, "Andrea Galvani, Pordenone"; v. 1, fol. 94-481 and v. 2: three crescents; v. 3: crown-star-crescent; v. 3 replacement leaves: shield with a face-in-the-moon, "Andrea Galvani, Pordenone") ; volumes 1-2 in good condition, volume 3 in fair condition with loose pages.
- Origin: According to colophons: volume 1 copied Sunday 12 [Dhū] al-Ḥijjah 1175 (fol. 481a), volume 2 copied Sunday 5 Jumād[á] al-Thānī 1185 by Yūsuf al-Ṭabbākh ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabbākh (fol. 296a).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلي اله وصحبه وسلم الحمد لله الذي انزل على عبده الکتاب تبصرة وذكري لاولي الالباب واودعه من العلوم والحكم العجب العجاب ... وبعد فان كتاب الله هو الكفيل بجميع علوم الشرع الذي استقل بالسنة والفرض ...
- Colophon: [الجزء 1] وقد تم الجزء الاول من تفسير العلامة المحقق المصري ... وكان فراغ من كتابته يوم الاحد المبارك ثاني عشر خلت من شهر الحجة الذي هو من شهور سنة الف وماية وحخمسة وسبعين هلاليه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلي اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا والحمد لله رب العامنين -- [الجزء 2] تم الكلام علي الجزء الثاني من تفسير عبدي المصري ... وكان الفراغ من نسخ هذا الجزء المبارك يوم الاحد المبارك لخسم خلت من شهر جماد الثاني الذي هو من شهور سنة الف وماية وجمس وثمانين هلاليه كتبه بيده لتفسه الفقير يوسف الطتاخ ابن ... احمد الطتاخ ... الحمد لله رب العالمين م -- [الجزء 3] وقبل ان ابليس يوسوس في صدورالجن کما يوسوس في صدور الناس والله اعلم ونستغفر الله من کل تقصير وسهو وغفلة مما ليس يراد ولا حول ولاقوة الا بالله العلي العظيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم. تم
- Binding Note
- All three volumes in similar type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorlas and blind-tooled decorative edgings on covers. Similar decoration on flaps. Tan paper pastedowns. Not sewn. Mandorla design and edging pattern differs on third volume.
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