Item Summary

A commentary expounding the story of the Prophet's Night Journey [Sūrah 17:1].

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الاية الكبرى في شرح قصة الاسرا / تأليف جلال الدين السيوطي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Āyah al-kubrá fī sharḥ qiṣṣat al-isrā / taʼlīf Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 240H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcfj236c27t
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1900
Format
Manuscript
Extent
20 leaves : paper ; 213 x 152 (157 x 108) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Fol. 1a has the ownership signature of ʻAlī ibn al-Sayyid Aḥmad al-Sharīf al-Ḥasanī al-Samhūdī.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 499.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 647.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 20 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (star with crescent on top) ; MS in fair condition, the last two folios are defective.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Title page has a statement about the quires and an account of a man requesting a divorce.
Colophon: تم الکلام على الاية الکبرى في شرح قصة الاسراء للشيخ جلال الدين السيوطي رحمه الله تعالى ونفعنا به والمسلمين امين. تم
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... الحمد لله الذي نعمه لا تحصى
Binding Note
Unbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Isrāʼ and Miʻrāj—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
44

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/1212d312-8fc3-4311-9494-f8e94dbf42e8/manifest