Item Summary

Commentary on Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl, a commentary on the Qurʼān by al-Bayḍawī. Comprises the commentary of sūrah 1-2:134.

Descriptive Information

Title
حاشية مولانا خسرو للقاضي.
Transliterated Title
Ḥāshiyat mawlānā Khusraw lil-Qāḍī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 657H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcft8492316
Publisher
Brūsā, [1542]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1542
Format
Manuscript
Extent
157 leaves : paper ; 260 x 175 (195 x 125) mm bound to 260 x 180 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement in the name of ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn Saʻadī, dated Shaʻbān 1042, with his seal on fol. (4)a (repeated on fol. 1a). Seal in the name of Shaykh ʻUthmān; tughra (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1283
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 417 ; SI
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from inscription on fol.1a (later hand).
Several inscriptions on fol. (1)-(4)b and 1a, including titles, prayers, and ownership statements. On fol. (3)b-(4)a note to the effect that this book should be kept from the ignorants, mentioning Iskandar and using magic formulae and numbers speculation. Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms) on fol. 1a.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 4, 157 ; catchwords ; chiefly quinions ; collational note on fol. 1a mentioning the number of quires (juzʼ) as being 16 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 29 lines per page.
Description: Written in 4 mm. script in black ink with use of red. Laid paper with chain lines in groups of three ; stained with humidity.
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on 1 Shaʻbān 949 [Nov. 10, 1542] in Brūsā [Bursa] (fol. 150a).
Incipit: بسم ... رب تمم بالخير الحمد لله الذى خلق النسم ورزق القسم ... اما بعد فان من القضايا المقررة عند ارباب الالباب
Binding Note
Modern binding. The previous binding is kept with the ms. (only lower cover and flap extant; red-brown leather over paper pasteboards with blind stamped mandorla and medallion).

Discovery Information

Subject
Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar -1286?—Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl
Qurʼan—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
tuǧras
Blind tooled bindings
Autographs
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
331

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/66c5d285-4865-43d7-93a2-4003e4ccbccd/manifest