Princeton University, Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 654Hq

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DS ID:

DS27101

Shelfmark:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 654Hq

Title:

Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl / انوار التنزيل واسرار التاويل

Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl

Author:

Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar, -1286? / بيضاوي، عبد الله بن عمر، -1286؟

Al-Baydawi WIKIDATA

Date:

1600-1699

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 300 leaves : paper ; 277 x 158 (214 x 104) mm bound to 276 x 158 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from preface (fol. 1b).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. The paper containing the text is older than that of the margins, into which it has been inserted.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 300 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red, blue, black and silver.
Description: Text in red and commentary (with vowel signs) in black ; overlining in red ; MS in good condition, mended.
Decoration: Elaborate illuminated headpiece in gold, orange, blue, purple,white and black. Text on opening spread within clouds on gold ground with yellow, red and blue flowers (fol. 1b-2a).
Origin: Text is probably from XVIIth century.
Obscured ownership signature dated Rabīʻ II 1229 and seal impressions (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Keyword:

Autographs

Stamps

illuminated manuscripts

headpieces (layout features)

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Qurʼan

Commentaries

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963577673506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f5dfc8d8-4cfd-4464-8de5-ef405a5b3e18/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University