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كتاب اسباب النزول / للامام العلامة المفسر الاوحد ابي الحسن علي بن حسن الواحدي
Kitāb asbāb al-nuzūl / lil-imām al-ʻallāmah al-mufassir al-awḥad Abī al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Ḥasan al-Wāḥidī.
1139
Treatise on the occasions in which singular sūras were revealed.
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Item Summary
Treatise on the occasions in which singular sūras were revealed.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب اسباب النزول / للامام العلامة المفسر الاوحد ابي الحسن علي بن حسن الواحدي
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb asbāb al-nuzūl / lil-imām al-ʻallāmah al-mufassir al-awḥad Abī al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Ḥasan al-Wāḥidī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 456Y
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/kh04ds311
- Publisher
- [1139]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1139
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 169 leaves : paper ; 220 x 170 (170 x 130) mm. bound to 223 x 190 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership statement on fol. 1a. Several audition statements (samāʻ notes) on fol. 168a-169b, mainly from the Masjid al-jāmiʻ in Damascus. According to R. Mach, the first one is by the hand of Ibn ʻAsākir. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Mach, R. Yahuda, 107
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 412 (3/1)
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a)
- 21 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and punctuation. Light cream paper with laid lines visible (chain lines visible on some leaves). Fol. 1-14 and 161 are mended with the text copied on the repair. Fol. 162-167 are on another paper. Quinions. On fol. 1a: title; inscriptions; ownership statement. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Copied in the second half of Ramaḍān 533 (colophon, fol. 168a).
- Collation: Paper, fol. 169 ; 1-16¹⁰ 17¹⁰ (-1, reconstructed) ; the first quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (in the form "thānī", see fol. 10a).
- Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله الكريم الوهاب هازم الاحزاب ومفتح الابواب ومنشى السحاب قال عز من قايل وقراناً فرقناه ...تنزيلاً اخبرنا الشيخ ابو بكر احمد...
- Explicit: لطولها رواه البخاري عن عبيد بن اسماعيل عن ابي اسامة ولهذا الحديث طرق في الصحيحين تم الكتاب
- Binding Note
- Upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap made of brown leather over paper pasteboard. Upper and lower covers are similarly blind- tooled with a central mandorla painted in blue, linked by a vertical double fillet to the outer frame, which consists of two double fillets. The envelope flap is similarly decorated with a smaller blind-tooled stamp on its pointe. Blind-tooling on fore-edge flap. Doublure of red leather on which paper pastedowns have been pasted.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 173
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/590dbebc-6a20-49df-ba2c-f8455bda1606/manifest