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

Title

Mukhtaṣar Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl.
[مختصر أنوار التنزيل وأسرار التأويل]

Authors

• Ibn al-ʻImād, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1422-1482
  ابن العماد، محمد بن محمد،
• 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 23
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2438125
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1080520207
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2438125

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 880 (1475)

Summary

Autograph copy of the first volume of an abridgment of al-Bayḍāwī's Anwār al-tanzīl wa asrār al-taʼwīl, a commentary on the Qurʼān. The writer states that he wished he could have taken that book along with him on his trip to Mecca and so wrote a shorter version more conducive to travel (f. 1v). This copy contains through verse 110 of al-Kahf (18:110). The last leaf is adhered to the back board.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger based on introduction (f. 1v).
   
• An inscription is dated 22 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1285 (March 6, 1869) (f. 1r).
   

Extent

172 leaves : 263 x 170 (200 x 125) mm bound to 263 x 170 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil upper left recto, 1-86 [=85], 86-121, 121[a]-172; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in pasteboard boards with brown paper sides with a black inked window design and frame, leather edges and cornerpieces. Plain paper doublure.

Layout

29 long lines; frame ruled with a misṭarah. Some marginal headers and notes.

Decoration

Rubrications in red. Short titles upper left recto.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
   
• Sold in February 1925 as "Ihmu'l-Ansul: 'The Science of the Roots,' i.e. the Rules for interpreting dreams and Islamic Exegesis, etc." (catalog excerpt and note inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--15th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--15th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Abridgements

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Mukhtaṣar Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl].

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Sale catalog entry, 1925, pasted in
• fol. 1r — Notations
• fol. 171r — 171v and 172r adhered