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هذا كتاب مصاعد النظر للاشراف على مقاصد السور / تأليف برهان الدين البقاعي.
Hādhā Kitāb Maṣāʻid al-naẓar lil-ishrāf ʻalá maqāṣid al-suwar / taʼlīf Burhān al-Dīn al-Biqāʻī.
1450-1899
An introductory treatise to the study of the Qurʼan demonstrating the relationship between the names of the sūrahs and their contents.
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- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 599H
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- Arabic
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Item Summary
An introductory treatise to the study of the Qurʼan demonstrating the relationship between the names of the sūrahs and their contents.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- هذا كتاب مصاعد النظر للاشراف على مقاصد السور / تأليف برهان الدين البقاعي.
- Transliterated Title
- Hādhā Kitāb Maṣāʻid al-naẓar lil-ishrāf ʻalá maqāṣid al-suwar / taʼlīf Burhān al-Dīn al-Biqāʻī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 599H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcwm118061m
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1450-1899
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 238 leaves : paper ; 217 x 164 (172 x 110) mm. bound to 216 x 168 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1224.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 575.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- A few marginal notes and summaries. It is stated in the preface that it would be appropriate if the work were entitled al-Maqṣid al-asmāʼ fī muṭābaqat ism kull sūrah lil-musammá.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 238 ; catchwords ; quires signed: 18-24 (first 17 quires unsigned) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 25 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition. MS is rare.
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلي الله علي سيدنا محمد وسلم الحمد لله الذي اعلم سور القرآن بما دل علي مقاصدها ... وبعد فهذا كتاب سميته مصاعد النظر ...
- Colophon: قد انتهى الاثبات له مع التحرير والانتخاب على قدر الجهد والطاقة والله الموفق للصواب وهو حسبي ونعم الوکيل وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather and marbled paper. Flap exterior covered in paper with zig-zag block-pressed design. Not sewn. Signs of earlier binding.
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- File Count
- 487
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- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f742a15d-1f11-4175-b237-3e6e1f103a3c/manifest