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
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b5291589-24c1-408a-854f-d376ec438d57/manifest