Item Summary

A gloss on the exegesis of Sūrat al-Nisāʼ, verse 91 (IV:91) according to al-Bayḍāwī.

Descriptive Information

Title
رسالة في تفسير قول تعالى ستجدون آخرين يريدون ان يأمنوكم الخ.
Transliterated Title
Risālah fī tafsīr qawlihi taʻālá satajidūna ākhirīn yurīdūna an yaʼmanūkum ilakh.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 661H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcb85160085
Publisher
[19th century]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
(2), 4, (3) leaves : paper ; 213 x 145 (180 x 130) mm bound to 213 x 146 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1290.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. (2)b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 4 + (3) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 14-16 lines per page.
Description: Watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in fair condition, defective. Outer edge of leaves damaged, text missing.
Origin: Probably from the XIXth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله منزل الآيات والحکم ومفيض العلوم والفهم على قلوب الانبياء والصالحين ... وبعد فقد ورد علينا وارد السوال من عند المولى الجليل اولى اولى الافضال حفظه الملك المتعال متعلقا بتفسير الاية الشريفة ...
Colophon: کتبه الفقير عليم الله على العجالة هندي
Binding Note
Later covering in yellow paper with block-pressed design.

Discovery Information

Subject
Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar -1286?—Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl
Qurʼan Sūrat al-Nisāʼ 93—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
24

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/3e4126ef-0ac1-4d00-9418-d0936357bac1/manifest