Item Summary

A section of the second part and another of the third part of a commentary on the Qurʼan covering Sūrahs II:250 (in part) - IV:126 (in part) and V:1 (in part) and 2 (in part).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب مجمع البيان لعلوم القرآن / تصنيف ابي علي الفضل بن الحسن الفضل الطبرسي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Majmaʻ al-bayān li-ʻulūm al-Qurʼān / taṣnīf Abī ʻAlī al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥasan al-Faḍl al-Ṭabarsī.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 647Hq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc6108vq16h
Publisher
1001 [1593]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1593
Extent
189 leaves : paper ; 307 x 212 (223 x 135) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1272.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 400/401.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 803.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page of part 3 (fol. 119a).
A few marginal notes and glosses. MS incomplete at beginning and end. Ḥājjī Khalīfah attributes the work to Abū Jaʻfar ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī 385-460 [995-1067].
Collation: Paper ; fol. 189 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 27 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (anchor; roman-alphabet countermark initials) ; MS in fair condition except several folios are defective with some loss of text.
Origin: According to colophon of part 2, copy completed Sunday 23 Rajab 1001 by Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd AIlāh ibn Maḥmūd al-Zabīdī al-Najafī, known as Banī Salāmah (fol. 119b).
Beginning: من الکاذب في قوله عن الحسن وکان سبب ابتلاهم ...
Ending: ... المشهود له وفقر المشهود عليه فلايقيم الشهادة ... الشهادة الفقير على الغني تهاونا للفقير
Binding Note
Unbound.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
382

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/b5291589-24c1-408a-854f-d376ec438d57/manifest