Wadh.Minasian 151 (The Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford)

Oriental Manuscripts Minasian Collection

Summary of Contents: This is a brief commentary on the Quran, initially written in 871 AH by Jalāl al-Dīn Maḥallī Shāfiʿī, covering the surah of Baqarah up to the surah of Asrāʾ. After him, due to the enthusiasm shown by people interested in it, Jalāl al-Dīn Suyūṭī completed and supplemented it following the same style, and added a commentary on the surah of Ḥamd.

Language(s): Arabic

Quran - commentary

Author: Suyūṭī, Jalāl al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr سیوطی، جلال‌الدین عبدالرحمن بن ابی‌بکر

Author: Maḥallī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, -1459 محلی، محمد بن احمد

Title: Tafsīr-i Jalālayn

Title: تفسیر جلالین

Title: Tafsīr-i Jalālī

Title: تفسیر جلالی

Incipit: الحمدللّه جملة خبریة قصد بها الثناء علی الله بمضمونها من انه تعالی مالک لجمیع الحمد من الخلق او مستحق لان یحمدوه…

Explicit: فان الناس یوسوسون ایضا بمعنی یلیق بهم فی الظاهر ثم تصل وسوستهم الی القلب و … بالطریق المؤدی الی ذلک والله تعالی اعلم

Colophon: … هذا التفسیر فی ۱۸ شهر ربیع الاول سنه ۱[…]۶۸…

References

Sequence Number in the Persian Catalogue:

FAW 197

Similar Copies in Other Libraries:

MAJ 26/106, 35/109
NLI 10/112-113

Similar Copies listed in Other Catalogues:

ARP 200
DEN 3/127

Printed editions:

Urmia, 1385 Shamsī/1965

On the Web:

Digitized version of another copy of this work.

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Western paper (with watermark), natural buff, thin, thick, and normal thickness, one size.

Extent: 1+376+1 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 20.5 × 13.5 cm.

Dimensions (written): 18.5 × 11 cm.

Condition

Many initial and final folios have had their edges mended.

Layout

21 lines per page

Hand(s)

Graceful and cursive Naskh, several hands, normal size The copy begins in a graceful Naskh script, but its neatness diminishes as we proceed towards the end of the copy. The handwriting is of very low quality towards the end. The date of copying written at the end is damaged.

Decoration

Rubricated titles; Quranic verses in cinnabar; incipit has a gilt frontispiece; one-line decorative frame.

Additions: There are two ownership notes on the initial folio, of whcih one is wiped out. On f. 1a: قد تشرفت بهذا التفسیر الجلالی مشحونا بالدرر… و لا تنظروا الی رواءه خطه و کاتبه فی اشد العذاب مع سارق الکلام الملک الوهاب… الحاج میرزا محمد علی ابن المبرور الشهید الحاج میرزا بابا ابن محمد خان ابن اسمعیل خان فسایی… کنت متوطنا و متولدا فی قصبه اصطهبانات. حرره فی ۱۹ شهر ج ۲ سنه احدی و ثلثمائه بعد الالف ; on f. 376b: a note on ownership transfer; on the first final end leaf: prayers.

Binding

Maroon leather, 14.5 × 21.5 cm, front + back cover, leather + pasteboard

Gilt tooling (a medallion, two finials, and rectangular corner-pieces)

Condition

The cover and its decorations are damaged.

History

Origin: Unknown place of origin; 11th century AH; 17th century CE The second digit in the origin year is wiped out (hence, 1[...]68), but it appears to be ‘0’, in which case the origin year will be 1068 AH/1658.

Provenance and Acquisition

Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Mīrzā Bābā ibn Muḥammad Khān ibn Ismaʿīl Khān Fasāyī میرزا محمد علی ابن میرزا بابا ابن محمد خان ابن اسمعیل خان فسایی

Donated to The Ferdowsi Library by Dr Caro Minasian in 1972.

Record Sources

This record was created by Dr Mohammad Emami based on the information published in the Persian catalogue by Dr Ali Mir-Ansari (Catalogue of the Persian and Arabic Manuscripts in the Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford (Minasian Collection), Tehran: Miras-e Maktoob, 2016).

Availability

Entry to the Library is permitted upon presentation of a valid university ID card (for admissions procedures, please visit Wadham College Library, Persian Studies Section). Please Contact persian.library@wadham.ox.ac.ukfor further information on the availability of this manuscript.

Funding of Cataloguing

Wadham College (University of Oxford)

Key to Abbreviations

ARP: (فهرست کتاب‌های چاپی عربی)
DEN: (فهرستواره دست‌نوشته‌های ایران - دنا)
FAW: (Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford - Minasian Collection)
MAJ: (Library, Museum and Documentation Center of the Islamic Consultative Assembly)
NLI: (National Library of Iran)

Subjects

Qurʼan--Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Koran--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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