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Manuscript/Mixed Material [Majmaʻ al-bayān fī tafsīr al-Qurʼān] [مجمع البيان في تفسير القرآن]

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Title

  • [Majmaʻ al-bayān fī tafsīr al-Qurʼān]

Other Title

  • [مجمع البيان في تفسير القرآن]

Summary

  • Commentary on the Qurʼān.

Names

  • Ṭabarsī, al-Faḍl ibn al-Ḥasan, -1153
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [17th century?]

Contents

  • [1]. Sūrat al-Fātiḥah-Sūrat al-Āl ʻImrān -- [2]. Sūrat al-Nisāʼ-Sūrat Yūsuf -- [3]. Sūrat al-Raʻd-Sūrat al-Qaṣaṣ -- [4]. Sūrat al-ʻAnkabūt-Sūrat al-Nās.

Headings

  • -  Qurʼan--Commentaries--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title based on other copies of same work.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Colophon states that Ṭabarsī completed the commentary in June 1142.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; thin, slightly yellowed, polished cream color laid paper with vertical laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; text within a ruled border of a thin red and wider gold line; black ink with rubrication and overlining; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GI, p. 513.3.1; SI, p. 708
  • -  Naskh; 25 lines in written area 17.5 x 9.7 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-270b; fol. 1b-401b; fol. 1b-255b; fol. 1b-382b.
  • -  "1. I 45 = 1.23-26."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 1-023, 1-024, 1-025, 1-026.
  • -  Binding; black half leather with black grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وبه ثقتي. الحمد لله الذي ارتفعت عن مطارح الفكر جلالته وجلت عن مطالع الهمم عزته وتعالت عن مشابهته الانام صفته ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: ... الفراغ منه يوم الحميس متصف ذي القعدة من سنة ست وثلثون وخمس مائة ...

Medium

  • 4 volumes (270, 401, 255, 382 leaves) (25 lines), paper : bound ; 24 x 16.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP130.4 .T34 1600z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016503165

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Ṭabarsī, Al-Faḍl Ibn Al-Ḥasan, -1153, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Majmaʻ al-bayān fī tafsīr al-Qurʼān. [17th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503165/.

APA citation style:

Ṭabarsī, A. I. A., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Majmaʻ al-bayān fī tafsīr al-Qurʼān. [17th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503165/.

MLA citation style:

Ṭabarsī, Al-Faḍl Ibn Al-Ḥasan, -1153, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Majmaʻ al-bayān fī tafsīr al-Qurʼān. [17th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016503165/>.