Item Summary

The fifth part of a commentary on the Koran exegeting Sūrat al-Isrāʼ (XVII)-Sūrat al-Muʼminūn (XXIII). According to Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), I, p. 537 this is one of the best commentaries on the Koran.

Descriptive Information

Title
قطعة من تفسير القشيري من سورة بني اسرائيل الى اخر سورة قد افلح المؤمنون.
Transliterated Title
Qiṭʻah min Tafsīr al-Qushayrī min Sūrat Banī Isrāʼīl ilá akhir Sūrat Qad Afllaḥa al-Muʼminūn.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 643H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc3x816z640
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1169
Extent
207 leaves : paper, illustration ; 220 x 152 (160 x 110) mm bound to 217 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1261.
Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), I, p. 537.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 487.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 4a).
A few marginal notes. Ibn Khallikān attributes this work to Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī 376-465 [986-1072], but in the present MS his son al-Qushayrī Abū Naṣr appears as the author. Folios 1b-2a have later inscriptions. Folio 3b has a drawing of a ship. Note stating that the MS was compared against the original.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 207 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 18 lines per page.
Description: Lacking most iʻjām diacritic marks ; watermarks (later endpapers only: crown, grapes) ; MS in fair condition, worm-eaten. MS is rare.
Origin: According to colophon copied 3 Shaʻbān 5[?]64 by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻĪsá ibn ʻUbayd Allāh ibn ʻĪsá al-Murādī al-Andulusī al-Ishbīli (fol. 206b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على محمد تفسير سورة بني اسرائيل ...
Colophon: فرغ منه صاحبه الفقير الى رحمت [رحمة] الله عبدالله بن عيسى بن عبيد الله بن عيسى المرادي الاندلسي ثم الاشبيلي في الثالث من شعبان سنة اربع وستين وخمسمائة حامدًا الله تعالى مصليا على رسوله محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله واصحابه وزوجته
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and green marbled paper. Endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
428

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/c4824560-4711-4710-ab21-5073c1e9df83/manifest