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Manuscript/Mixed Material Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʼwīl. [v. 1] أنوار التنزيل واسرار التأويل

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Title

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

Other Title

  • أنوار التنزيل واسرار التأويل

Summary

  • The first volume of al-Bayḍāwī's Qurʼān commentary Anwār al-tanzīl.

Names

  • Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar, -1286?
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Ṣafar 1079 [July/August 1668]

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Written by Ḥusayn ibn Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Iṣfahānī.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; dark cream color paper with no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication and overlining; all pages have marginal notes and comments, many very extensive; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GI, p. 530; SI, p. 738
  • -  Naskh; 20 lines in written area 16.5 x 13 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-255b.
  • -  "H-0168 = 1.78."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 1-078.
  • -  Binding; black half leather with black gain sides and flap; envelope binding.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وبه نستعين. الحمد لله الذي نزل الغرفان على عبده ليكون للعالمين نذيرا فتحدي باقصر سورة من سورة مصاقع الخطباء من العرب العرباء فلم يجد به قديرا ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: وقد اتفق الفراغ من نسخ هذه الورقة في سلح صفر ختم بالخير والظفر سنة تسع وسبعين بعد الالف على يد احقر خليقه حسين بن شمس الدين محمد الاصفهاني عفا الله عنهما بحق محمد وآله الغر الميامين المعصومين.

Medium

  • 255 leaves (20 lines), paper : bound ; 25.5 x 20 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP130.4 .B3 1668

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017481176

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh Ibn ʻUmar, -1286?, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Anwār Al-Tanzīl Wa-Asrār Al-Taʼwīl. V. 1. [Ṣafar July/August 1668, 1668] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481176/.

APA citation style:

Bayḍāwī, ʻ. A. I. ʻ., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1668) Anwār Al-Tanzīl Wa-Asrār Al-Taʼwīl. V. 1. [Ṣafar July/August 1668] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481176/.

MLA citation style:

Bayḍāwī, ʻAbd Allāh Ibn ʻUmar, -1286?, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Anwār Al-Tanzīl Wa-Asrār Al-Taʼwīl. V. 1. [Ṣafar July/August 1668, 1668] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017481176/>.