• Juzʼ al-thānī min Tafsīr Abī al-Layth al-Samarqandī.
  • al-Juzʼ al-thānī min Tafsīr Abī al-Layth al-Samarqandī.

Collections:
  • Robert Garrett
  • Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
  • Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
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Language:
  • Arabic
Creator:
  • Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī, Naṣr ibn Muḥammad, -983?
  • ابو الليث السمرقندي، نصر بن محمد
Call number:
  • Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2537Yq
  • Electronic Resource
Extent:
  • 330 leaves: paper ; 280 x 180 (200 x 125) mm. bound to 280 x 200 mm.
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title from title page by a later hand (fol. 1a).
  • Incipit: سورة مريم ثمان وتسعون اية كلها مكية يسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين كهيعص قراء ابن كثير وعاصم فى رواية حفص بنصب الهاء والياء
  • Explicit: سورة الناس مدنية وهى ست ايات بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قوله تعالى قل اعوذ بربّ الناس يقول استعيذ بخالق الناس ... [324أ] ... قال من لم يزعم انّهما من كتاب الله تعالى فعليه لعنة الله والملائكة اجمعين تم كتاب تفسير ابى الليث نصر بن ابراهبم السمرقندى
  • Physical description: 24 lines per page. Written in small taʻlīq in black ink with use of red for overlining, re-inking and "maṭlab" on the margins. Light biscuit paper with pulp and thick laid lines visible. Occasional marginal annotation. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Fol. 1 and 324 consist of a leaf in European paper with watermark pasted on the recto and the verso respectively of an original folio. Some leaves apparently missing (see between fol. 13 and 14). Note on a modern piece of paper placed between fol. 3 and 4. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Raqm 43". Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (faulty). Water damage; mildew.
  • Origin: Copy completed on 8 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 892 [March 4, 1487] (colophon, fol. 324a, followed by verses of poetry on the margin, 2 lines in Arabic, 2 lines in Persian).
Publisher:
  • [1487]
Subject:
  • Qurʼan—Commentaries—History—10th century—Sources
  • Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Title sort:
  • Juzʼ al-thānī min Tafsīr Abī al-Layth al-Samarqandī.
Alternative:
  • Tafsīr Abī al-Layth al-Samarqandī
  • تفسير ابي الليث السمرقندي
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
Binding note:
  • Unbound quires placed within a binding consisting of brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap, with yellow paper pasted on covers and envelope flap. Yellow paper doublure.
Provenance:
  • Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source acquisition:
  • Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References:
  • Mach, R. Yahuda, 321
  • Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 196 (6/1) ; SI
Author:
  • Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī, Naṣr ibn Muḥammad, -983?
Created:
  • 1487-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date:
  • 1487
Abstract:
  • Second part of the tafsīr of Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī, comprising the text from Sūrat Maryam (19) to Sūrat al-Nās (114).
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/794080760
Location:
  • HSVM Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2537Yq
  • HSVM Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2537Yq
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Type:
  • Commentaries
Uniform title:
  • Baḥr al-ʻulūm. Juzʼ 2
  • بحر العلوم. جزء 2
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