Item Summary

Treatise explaining difficult words used in the Qurʼān, arranged in alphabetical order. The text is followed on fol. 98a-110b by several fāʼidah, written by the same hand, on the verses on which one can not pause, on how to know if one should read ḍād or ẓāʼ in some words of the Qurʼān, and related questions. On fol. 111a-b, short text on physiognomy. On fol. 112a-b, short text attributed to Jaʻfar al-Ṣādiq on the characteristics of the day of the months (al-Ikhtiyārāt).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب تفسير غريب القرآن / تأليف ابي بكر محمد بن عزيز السجستاني
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Tafsīr gharīb al-Qurʼān / taʼlīf Abī Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʻUzayz al-Sijistānī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 919Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/8k71nk720
Publisher
[ 1516]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1516
Format
Manuscript
Extent
113 leaves: paper ; 172 x 125 (120 x 90) mm.
Provenance
Two ownership statements on fol. 1a, one in the name of al-Karbalāʼī, dated last decade of Rajab 1246 [Jan. 1831], with seal ; the other in the name of Mīrzā Muḥammad ʻAlī al-Mūsawī al-Ḥusaynī ..., with seal. Impression of a third seal on the left margin (repeated on fol. 97b). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 149
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
16 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink. The text is partially vocalized. Red dots in groups of three for text-stops. Cream paper with laid lines visible. Inscriptions on fol. 113a-b.
Copy completed for himself by Jumʻah Ibn Ḥusayn al-Sūrānī al-Ḥillī al-Imāmī on al-Arbaʻā 12? Muḥarram ("Thānī ʻĀshūrā") 922 [Feb. 1516] (colophon, after the copy of the colophon of the exemplar, dated Shawwāl 613 [1217]). Second colophon by the same copyist after the fāʼidah, on fol. 110b, with sayings of the Prophet and from ʻAlī on the margins.
Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلّى على محمد النبي وآله الطيبين الطاهرين وسلم كثيرا هذا كتاب تفسير القرأن اُلف على حروف المعجم ليقرب تناوله ويسهل حفظه على من اراده وبالله التوفيق والعون والقوة والحول وحسبنا الله وحده الهمزة المفتوحة وصورتها الالف الم وساير الحروف الهجا في اوايل السور كان بعض المفسرين يجعلها
Explicit: الياء المكسورة قيل ليس فى العربية [97ب] كلمة اولها يآء مكسورة الا يَسار ويَسار لليد تم الكتاب والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلي الله علي سيدنا محمد النبي والاكرمين وقع الفراغ منه في شهر شوال من سنه ثلث عشر وستمآيه وكتبه العبد الفقير الي الله الغني ... عبد الله اين مقبل ابن عبد الله ابن مقبل ابن محمد ابن ضرير الواسطي البرجوني حامدًا لله نعالي ومصليًا علي نبيه محمدًا واله
Binding Note
Upper cover consists of red leather over paper pasteboards with an outer border made of fillets and a central stamped mandorla. Lower cover consists of paper pasted on paper pasteboards with brown leather edges. Paper doublure. Spine wanting. Disbound.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan—Glossaries, vocabularies, etc—10th century
Qurʼan—Criticism, Textual—10th century
Days—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
Physiognomy—Islamic empire—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
118

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/58531fd2-c910-4671-80b1-548cea663b1d/manifest