Item Summary

A commentary on Sūrat al-Insān, and a theological work.

Descriptive Information

Title
تفسير سورة الانسان ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Tafsīr Sūrat al-Insān ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 684H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dckw52jm43s
Publisher
[18th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
117 leaves : paper ; 165 x 111 (95-107 x 48) mm bound to 164 x 116 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Ṣāliḥ Muṣṭafá; Hidāyah Allāh al-Simnānī al-Bālchī; Abū al-Tawfīq ʻAbd[?] Allāh al-shahīr bi-ʻUshshāqīʹzādah[?], teacher at Madrasah Saʻd Afandī (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1299, 1300.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 15.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a: [Table of contents]
2. fol. 1b-56b: Tafsīr Sūrat al-Insān. The exegesis of Sūrah LXXVI. Some folios are misplaced and evidently some are missing.
3. fol. 57b-117b: al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ min Ḥujjat al-kalām li-īḍāḥ maḥajjat al-Islām. An eschatological treatise, otherwise known as Risālat al-maʻād.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preface of first work (fol. 1b).
Marginal notes. Title on lower edge of text block: Tafsīr Hal atá.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 117 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 11 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from XVIIIth century.
Incipit: [تفسير سورة الانسان] بسم الله الرحمن اارحيم احمد الله [على] جميل سلطانه واشکره على جزيل احسنه ... وبعد فان [العبد] الآنس بمولاه الآيس عمن سواه المستغيث بالله الغفور ... -- [حجة الکلام] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اعود اليك واعوذبك بعد حمد الله على الآية والصلوة ... هذا هو الجزء التاسع من حجة الكلام لايضاح محجة الاسلام ...
Colophon: [تفسير سورة الانسان] اللهم يا واهب الحيوة ويا مالك الرقاب رقا ببابك عبد تطفل على کرمك رجاء لقبول توبته وقصدا الى عفوك تطلبا لمحو خطيته فلا ترجمه من روحك بيد صفر بعد اوبته ولا تدخله في زمرة الظالمين بسيئته وهب له من لدنك رحمة وهيء له من امره رشدا تم تم تم -- [حجة الکلام] سيما اذا استدل في السند تمت رسالة المعاد
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with gold-tooled pendants and outline; double gold-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Tan paper pastedowns. Not sewn.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan Sūrat al-lnsān—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Islamic eschatology—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Gold tooled bindings
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
248

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/79848f80-3a7a-4b95-af74-642ec9a9ce89/manifest