Collection ID: 0033 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl.
انوار التنزيل واسرار التأويل

Authors

• Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar, -1286
  بيضاوي، عبد الله بن عمر،
• Arabic Manuscripts Collection (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)

Other related names

• Sterrett, W. J, donor

Call number

UTS MS Arab. 6
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 15309761
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1237689829
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0033/html/uts_ms_006_arabic.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15309761

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1820?

Summary

Copy of the first volume of Bayḍāwī's commentary on the Qurʼān. This volume ends with the end of verse 109 of Sūrat al-Kahf (18). A hole in a number of leaves has been repaired with missing text rewritten; marginalia and missing text written in the same hand.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 2r).
   
• Stamp dated 1236 A.H. (1820 or 1821 CE) (f. 1v).
   

Extent

348 leaves : 271 x 162 (188 x 100) mm, bound to 277 x 185 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind-stamped central mandorla; marbled pastedowns.

Layout

Written in 23 long lines.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in gold and blue (f. 1v); rubrications in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black and red ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of W. J. Sterrett (a typescript letter from William Walker Rockwell to Dr. W. J. Sterrett acknowledging receipt of two manuscripts, laid in).
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Commentaries
• manuscripts (documents)
• Qur'ans
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Envelope flaps (features)
• marginalia (annotations)
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Insertions (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl.

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece