Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 456Y

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DS ID:

DS26799

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 456Y

Title:

Kitāb asbāb al-nuzūl / / كتاب اسباب النزول /

Qurʼan commentary

Author:

Wāḥidī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad, -1075 or 1076 / واحدي ، أبو الحسن علي بن احمد

Wāḥidī Nīsābūrī WIKIDATA

Date:

1139

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 169 leaves : paper ; 220 x 170 (170 x 130) mm. bound to 223 x 190 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a)
21 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and punctuation. Light cream paper with laid lines visible (chain lines visible on some leaves). Fol. 1-14 and 161 are mended with the text copied on the repair. Fol. 162-167 are on another paper. Quinions. On fol. 1a: title; inscriptions; ownership statement. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Copied in the second half of Ramaḍān 533 (colophon, fol. 168a).
Collation: Paper, fol. 169 ; 1-1610 1710 (-1, reconstructed) ; the first quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (in the form "thānī", see fol. 10a).
Ownership statement on fol. 1a. Several audition statements (samāʻ notes) on fol. 168a-169b, mainly from the Masjid al-jāmiʻ in Damascus. According to R. Mach, the first one is by the hand of Ibn ʻAsākir. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

Twelfth century

New Jersey--Princeton

Muslim scholars

History

Syria--Damascus

Sources

Qurʼan

Criticism and interpretation

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9947336313506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/590dbebc-6a20-49df-ba2c-f8455bda1606/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University