Item Summary

A gloss on Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl.

Descriptive Information

Title
[حاشية على انوار التنزيل واسرار التأويل].
Transliterated Title
[Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl].
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 658Hq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1657
Extent
417 leaves : paper ; 292 x 173 (212 x 102) mm bound to 290 x 180 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature of Aḥmad Rushdī dated 1205 and a seal impression (fol. [i]a). Seal impressions of Muṣṭafá (fol. 417b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1285.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 477.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 165
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 838-42.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal notes and glosses. Ḥājjī Khalīfah states that the author's work proper begins with Sūrat Hụd (XI); what precedes that is the compilation of the authorʼs son Pīr Muḥammad.
Collation: Paper ; fol. xi + 417 + v ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 31 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold and black.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three hats, bird in a circle, sheep?; roman-alphabet initials with trefoil) ; MS in good condition.
Decoration: Simple illuminated headpieces in gold (fol. 1b and 56b).
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Rajab 1067 by Muṣṭafá... Ḥiṣarī al-Sharafī (fol. 417b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله والسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى سورة فاتحة الکتاب ...
Colophon: تم الکتاب بحمد[ا]لله وعونه وحسن توفيقه على يدالعبد الفقير المعترف بالعجز والتقصير مصطفى ... حصاري الشرفي. وقع اتمام هذه النسخة في وقت ضحوة الکبرى من رجب الفرد لسنة سبع وستين والف من هجرة من له العز والشرف
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Pink paper pastedowns; envelope flap lined with marbled paper. Endbands. Envelope flap repaired with blue leather.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
884

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/92ba905b-48dc-43e3-b0b2-60b82ce96677/manifest