- درة الفاخرة وتفسير القرآن
- Durrah al-fākhirah wa-Tafsīr al-Qurʼān
- Collections:
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- Robert Garrett
- Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
- Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
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- Language:
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- Arabic
- Creator:
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- Jāmī, 1414-1492
- جامي.
- Call number:
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- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1308Y
- Electronic Resource
- Extent:
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- 114 leaves : paper ; 155 x 107 (125 x 75) mm. bound to 162 x 110 mm.
- Format:
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- Manuscript
- Book
- Description:
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- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by the cataloger.
- 20 lines per page. Written in very small naskh in black ink with use of red. Text on ff. 1b and 2a within a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink. Foliation in pencil in Western numerals. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper (a few sheets are a later replacement on a different paper). Ownership seal on fol. 114a.
- Publisher:
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- [1764]
- Subject:
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- Qurʼan—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
- Qurʼan—Language, style—Early works to 1800
- Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800
- Sufism—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
- God (Islam)—Early works to 1800
- Creation (Islam)—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- Title sort:
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- [Durrah al-fākhirah wa-Tafsīr al-Qurʼān]
- Spatial:
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- New Jersey
- Binding note:
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- Brown leather with gold tooled guilloche and fillets around the borders, and blind tooled mandorlas painted in gold in the centre of upper and lower covers. Spine repaired in green buckram.
- Provenance:
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- Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
- Source acquisition:
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- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References:
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- Mach, R. Yahuda, 397
- Mach, R. Yahuda, 2393
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 266 (1, 2)
- Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 285
- Author:
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- Jāmī, 1414-1492
- Created:
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- 1764-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Date:
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- 1764
- Abstract:
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- Jāmī's Durrah al-fākhirah, a treatise verifying the doctrines of the Sūfīs in comparison with theologians and philosophers, written at the request of Sultan Mehmed II, and his Tafsīr al-Qurʼān, which was not completed and is in fact a commentary on the Sūrat al-Fātiḥah and the beginning of the Sūrat al-Baqarah (up to 2:40).
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/1j92gb07g
- Location:
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- HSVM Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1308Y
- HSVM Electronic Resource
- ELF1 Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1308Y
- ELF1 Electronic Resource
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Type:
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- Commentaries
- Early works to 1800
- Contents:
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- 1. ff. 1b-15a: Durrah al-fākhirah.
- 2. ff. 15b-114b: Tafsīr al-Qurʼān.
- Text language:
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- Arabic.
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