Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 210L

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DS ID:

DS26543

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 210L

Title:

al-Sirāj al-munīr fī al-iʻānah ʻalá maʻrifat baʻḍ maʻānī kalām rabbinā al-ḥakīm al-khabīr / السراج المنير في الاعانة على معرفة بعض معاني کلام ربنا الحکيم الخبير

Qurʼan commentary

Author:

Shirbīnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, -1570 / شربيني، محمد بن احمد، -1570

Al-Khaṭīb ash-Shirbīniy WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Kinānī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muṣṭafá, active 19th century / كناني، ابراهيم بن مصطفى، active 19th century

Date:

1239 [1823 or 1824

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 5 volumes (497, 560, 471, 535, 483 leaves) : paper ; 235-245 x 165-170 (160-170 x 95) bound to 228-244 x 165-175 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from preface of volume 1 (v. 1, fol. 3a).
Table of contents for volumes 1-3 at beginning of each of those volumes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 497, 560, i + 471, i + 535 + ii, i + 483 + ii ; quires signed (v. 1, 4-5) ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals (v. 1-3) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page ; volumes 1-3 frame-ruled in red and blue.
Description: Rubricated ; some paper lightly tinted red or yellow (v. 1-2); some paper deeply tinted yellow, red or brown (v. 3) ; some paper tinted red or light yellow (v. 5) ; watermarks (v: 1-3: three crescents; v. 2: crest with roman-alphabet initial "W", roman-alphabet letters "EGA"; v. 3: shield with a face-in-the-moon; horn, roman-alphabet lettering "AS. Ilario"; vol. 4: eagle with...
Decoration: Illuminated headpieces in gold, blue, red and black (v. 1, fol. 1b; v. 2, fol. 2b). Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, red, yellow and white (v. 3, fol. 1b). Opening spread in volumes 1-3 frame-ruled in gold.
Origin: According to colophon of volume 1 copy completed 1239 by Ibrāhīm ibn Muṣṭafá al-Badyawī al-Kinānī (v. 1, fol. 496b).
Seal impression (beginning of vol. 1-3). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Keyword:

headpieces (layout features)

Commentaries

illuminated manuscripts

Early works

Stamps

Blind tooled bindings

Colored papers

Watermarks

Qurʼan

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963577853506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f72abd1a-e6d9-44ac-803d-c74ab97eb0ad/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University