Koran--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia
Or Ms 1: أنوار التنزیل وأسرار التأویل Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-ta'wīl, undated
A well-known commentary on the Qur'ān. The name of the author does not appear, but the commentary is known to have been compiled by Nāṣir al-Dīn 'Abd-allāh b. 'Umar al-Bayḍawī whose death date is commonly given as c. 1286 C.E. However, accordīng to the notice of his life in Kitāb al-Aqālīm, written at Tabriz 716 A.H. (1316 C.E.), Hamd-allāh Mustawfī, a contemporary, says he died in 710 A.H. (1310 C.E.).
The text of the Qur'ān is written in red ink.
Or Ms 2: الاسعاف في شرح شواهد القاضي والکشّاف al-Is'āf fī sharḥ shawāhid al-qāḍī wa-al-kashshāf vol. 2, 1192 A.H., 1778 C.E.
Or Ms 3: الاسعاف في شرح شواهد القاضي والکشّاف al-Is'āf fī sharḥ shawāhid al-qāḍī wa-al-kashshāf vol. 1, 1192 A.H., 1778 C.E.
أنوار التنزيل وأسرار التأويل Anwār al-tanzīl wa asrār al-taʼwīl, undated (extant by 16th cent. C.E.)
A complete copy of the well-known commentary upon the Qur'an of al-Bayḍāwī (Naṣīr al-Dīn ‘Abd-Allāh b. ‘Umar). This copy has numerous notes transcribed on the margins. The names of the surahs (chapters) are written on the left top corner of each page.
Frontispiece illuminated with gold.
التّخبیر في علوم التّفسیر al-Takhbīr fī 'ulūm al-tafsīr, undated copy (original text composed 15th cent. C.E.)
A fragment of Abū al-Faḍl Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭi al-Shāf'ī's (d. 911 A.H., 1505-06 C.E.) work on the sciences of Qur'ānic exegesis, composed 872 A.H. (1467-1468 C.E.) and afterwards included in his most famous work al-Itiqān fī 'ulūm al-Qur'ān. It is divided into eighty sections. The present copy (54 folios in total) breaks abruptly off already in the eighteenth.