Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 152Y

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DS ID:

DS26511

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 152Y

Title:

Kitāb Tafsīr al-Qurʼān al-ʻaẓīm al-maʻrūf bi-al-Jalālayn / / كتاب تفسير القرآن العظيم المعروف بالجلالين /

Qurʼan commentary

Author:

Maḥallī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1389-1459 / محلي، جلال الدين محمد بن احمد

Jalaluddin al-Mahalli WIKIDATA

Date:

between 13--? and 14--?

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: ii, 233, i leaves : paper ; 260 x 185 (180 x 130) mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from illuminated title page (fol. 1a).
Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh. The Qurʼanic text is written in red, the commentary in black. Light cream paper, glossy, with laid lines and chain lines in groups of two and three visible. Occasional marginal annotation, including notes in Persian (see fol. 10a) and notes attributed to Tafsīr al-ʻAllāmah Ibn Kamāl Pāshā (see fol. 15b).
Chiefly quinions. The quires are numbered using Arabic numerals.
Decoration: Illuminated title page on fol. 1a, executed in gold, red, blue, and green. A panel outlined in blue with flecks developing from each outer corner is divided in two uneven parts. The upper part bears the title written in white on a blue ground with a rinceau in gold, in a cartouche on a red and gold ground. Small roundel in gold and red outlined in blue on the left margin. The lower...
Origin: The copy is not dated, but the name of the copyist is given as Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Manṣūr, known as Ibn al-ʻAshrah. The illuminated title page, paper, and script, suggest Egypt or Syria, 14th-15th cent.
Several partially erased ownership statements on fol. 1a, one in the name of [...] ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ [...] bi-al-Jāmiʻ al-kabīr ; one dated 1151 H. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

illuminated manuscripts

Islamic Empire

Fourteenth century

Fifteenth century

illuminations (paintings)

title pages

Qurʼan

Commentaries

History

Sources

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9955330753506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e42ce986-7940-415e-ab3b-5756dace2df1/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University