Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

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

Authors

• Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar, -1286
  بيضاوي، عبد الله بن عمر،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner

Call number

Lewis O 22
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2572444
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1243893026
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_022.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2572444

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1350 and 1450?

Summary

Copy of al-Bayḍāwī's commentary on the Qurʼān with a partial table of contents added at the beginning.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   

Extent

I, 369, ii leaves : 270 x 177 (201 x 126) mm, bound to 270 x 177 mm

Foliation

Foliated in Hindu-Arabic numerals in ink with some misnumbering (1-79, 81-83, 85-369) upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with gold-tooled central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; inside covers of brown leather with a filigree patterned central mandorla in black and gold over green textile; gold-tooled corners and frame.

Layout

Written in 33 long lines; frame ruled with a misṭarah. Some marginal headers; many marginal notes.

Decoration

Illuminated frontispiece and title page in three registers with the main space colored blue with corner pieces in gold and colors and a central shamsah containing the subtitle and author's name in gold; the title appears in gold and white in a rectangle above with a third register above that with decoration in polychrome and gold (f. 1r); polychrome and gold headpiece and circular vignette (f. 1v); verses of the Qurʼān and sūrah titles in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink with titles in thuluth in red ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic--14th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--14th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--15th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--15th century

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Commentaries
• Illuminations (painting)
• manuscripts (documents)
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Filigree

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

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

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated frontispiece
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece