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
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
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.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
884

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4f3a8bb1-e2c1-47b2-bb42-56fc0d86389c/manifest