Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 5081Y

Metadata

DS ID:

DS26831

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 5081Y

Title:

Volume 2 of a Qurʾān commentary

Qurʼan commentary

Date:

1758

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 316 leaves : paper ; 216 x 166 (162 x 105) mm bound to 219 x 175 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger. On fol. 1a, the title given by a later hand misleading reads "al-Niṣf al-thānī min Ḥāshiyah fī al-qirāʾāt."
Physical description: 23-29 lines per page; written in casual naskh in black on glazed, laid European paper. Change in script size (and change of hand?) on fol. 159a after the third rubʻ. Rubrication and catchwords. Extensive damp staining, mild insect damage; fol. 79-80 stuck together. Text legible except for slight damage on a few pages which were previously stuck together.
Origin: 25 Rabīʻ I 1172 H [26 November 1758], by Aḥmad Barakāt al-Khannāfī [?] al-Shāfiʻī (fol. 315a).
Ex libris of A.S. Yahuda on inner front cover. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Eighteenth century

Qurʼan

Criticism, Textual

Early works

New Jersey--Princeton

Commentaries

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9974224223506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University