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Title

Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl.
أنوار التنزيل وأسرار التأويل

Authors

• Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar, -1286
  بيضاوي، عبد الله بن عمر،

Other related names

• Isbahānī, Tāj al-Dīn Ḥasan, reader
  اسبهاني، تاج الدين حسن.
• Camac, William, 1829-1900, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 45 v.1
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: ocm86167203
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
• https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9914696443503681

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1550? and 1664

Place

Iran?

Summary

Commentary on the Qurʼān in two volumes, copied in the same hand. Marginal additions in the same and later hands. A table of contents was added to the front flyleaves in nastʻaliq by a later hand.

Notes

• Title from introduction (f. 2v).
   
• Waqf Masjid al-Aqṣá is written into both volumes of the manuscript in numerous places, but no official statement of donation is found anywhere in the copy. Three stamps are also present at the end of the second volume (f. 673r, 673v). Readers' notes, several signed by Tāj al-Dīn Ḥasan al-Isbahānī, are also present at the end of both volumes (f. 317v, 673r, 673v).
   

Extent

2 volumes (317, 356 leaves) : 188 x 115 (126 x 70) mm bound to 118 x 115 mm

Foliation

Foliated continuously across both volumes in Hindu-Arabic numerals in black ink (volume 1: f. 1-317; volume 2: f. 318-673), upper left recto, with catchwords on every verso, lower left; some numbers and catchwords were cut off when the text was rebound.

Support

Paper

Binding

Both volumes bound in dark brownish-red leather with blind-stamped, gilded and painted central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis, and gold tooled frame. A flap was once present on Volume 1, but has now been lost and the front cover is loose. Volume 2 retains the flap and foredge cover, though it and the front cover are both loose. Each volume has a label written on the bottom edge: Volume 1: al-Awwal min al-Bayḍāwī; Volume 2: al-Thānī min al-Bayḍāwī. Inside covers are brown leather with gilt rulings around the edges.

Layout

25 long lines with border-rules.

Decoration

Textblock border-ruled in gold and black; the first opening of the first volume has gold rules dividing the textblock into five sections with only the middle one used for text (f. 1v-2r) and the first page of the second volume has a gold floriated pattern above the textblock (f. 318v), though this may be a later addition. The text of the Qurʼān is in red with gold overlines. Each volume has gilt stamped floral patterns on the edges.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, partially vocalized.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by William Camac; bequeathed to the University of Pennsylvania in the Camac Memorial Collection. Accessioned in 1914.
   

Genres

• Early works
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Manuscripts, Arabic--16th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Commentaries

Licenses

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Table of contents

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

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Gold ruled
• fol. 2r — Gold ruled
• fol. 317v — Reader's note