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Item Summary
A commentary on the Qurʼan. Despite the attribution to al-Ījī, this text does not match other copies of his work Jawāmiʻ al-tibyān fī tafsīr al-Qurʼān.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- مختصر علوم التفاسير.
- Transliterated Title
- Mukhtaṣar ʻulūm al-tafāsīr.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 668H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dchm50v341n
- Publisher
- [17th century?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1600-1699
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 429 leaves : paper ; 177 x 129 (145 x 87) mm. bound to 174 x 125 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1294.
- Hajji Khallfah, II, pp. 636/7.
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 159.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from text (fol. 1b).
- Marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. Incomplete at end. MS ends with Surat al-Mujādilah, verse 1 (LVIII:1).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 429 + ii ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red or blue.
- Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; some use of blue ink ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
- Origin: Probably from the XVIIth century.
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي ارسل رسوله صلى الله عليه وسلم بالهدي ودين الحق بشيرا للمئمنين ...
- Ending: قد سمع الله قول التي تجادلك في زوجها وتشتکي الى الله
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging. Endbands. Flap missing. Yellow fabric pastedowns.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 884
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4f3a8bb1-e2c1-47b2-bb42-56fc0d86389c/manifest





















