al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ min Tafsīr al-Qurṭubī, [1091, i.e., 1680].

• Main Author: 880-01 Qurṭubī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, -1273.
• Format: Manuscript
• Language: Arabic
• Published: 1680
• Subjects: Qurʼan; Manuscripts; Arabic; Pink salmon
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015079127620

Fine copy of the fourth part of the well-known commentary on the Qurʼān by Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Faraj al-Anṣārī al-Khazrajī al-Andalusī (d.1272), opening in Sūrat Yāsīn (36) and concluding in Sūrat al-Nās (114). Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Library, Isl. Ms. 461 Origin: As appears in colophon on p.907, transcription completed 17 Jumādá II 1091 [ca. 15 July 1680]. Accompanying materials: a. Scrap of paper with "تفسير الانصاري القرطبي على القرآن" in pencil (pp.1-2) -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.3-4) -- c. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.5-6). Former shelfmark: From inner front cover, front flyleaf, and spine label "IL 49c" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip). Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather Type II binding (with flap) doublures (board linings) in marbled paper (mainly in pink, salmon, yellow, and dark blue) upper and lower covers carry gold-stamped mandorla (filled with symmetrical vegetal composition, gold leaf lost from ornament on upper cover) with pendants and gold-painted accents, as well as tooled rule-border sewn in dark blue thread, two stations worked chevron endbands in light blut and yellow, quite good condition overall in fair condition with some abrasion and staining, etc. Support: European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), single chain lines spaced roughly 25 mm. apart (vertical), and crown-star-crescent watermark (see pp.39-40, pp.93-94, etc. compare Nikolaev, Watermarks of the Ottoman Empire, v.1 nos. 257, 268, 273, etc. and Heawood 1131-1133) crisp though thick and sturdy highly burnished. Decoration: Somewhat crudely executed 'illuminated' headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.(8) consisting of rectangular piece with empty 'gold' (golden yellow) cartouche flanked by blue accents surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) with flowers in 'gold' with red accents on a blue ground, all surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue and red and set into a well of red with black accents written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by elaborate frame consisting of gold, green, red and black bands written area elsewhere surrounded by double red rule-border sūrah and section headings (الاولى، الثانية، الخ) as well as other keywords (قوله تعالى، الخ) rubricated textual dividers in the form of red discs occasional overlining of Qurʼānic excerpts (see pp.122, 133-34, 155, etc.). Script: Naskh small, compact Egyptian hand partially but irregularly seriffed with right-sloping head-serif, slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, mainly closed counters, somewhat freely ligatured. Layout: Written in 35 lines per page frame-ruled. Collation: i, IV+1 (9), 43 V(439), V+1 (450), i almost exclusively quinions middle of the quire marks in the form of quire numbering in Hind-Arabic numerals begins with "٣٠" on p.655 and continues through final quire, concluding with "۴۲" on p.897 rather than p.899 where expected catchwords present pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and skips ahead two pages following p.865 with p.868). Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تمت النسخة المباركة بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه والحمد لله وحده وكان الفراغ من كتابتها يوم الاحد سابع عشر جمادى الاخرة سنة واحد وتسعين والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة واتم التسليم وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين" Explicit: "قال ان الله عز وجل تجاوز لامتي عما حدثت به انفسها ما لم تعمل او تتكلم [تكلم] به رواه ابو هريرة خرجه مسلم والله تعالى اعلم" Incipit: "سورة يس مكية وهي باجماع من الانصار وهي ثمانون وثلاث ايات الا ان فرقة قالت ان قوله ونكتب ما قدموا واثارهم نزلت في بني سلمة ." Title from 'title page' (p.7). Ms. codex. Nikolaev, Vsevolod. Watermarks of the mediaeval Ottoman documents in Bulgarian libraries. In Watermarks of the Ottoman Empire, volume 1. (Sofia, 1954), Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn, Brockelmann, C. GAL Fine copy of the fourth part of the well-known commentary on the Qurʼān by Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Faraj al-Anṣārī al-Khazrajī al-Andalusī (d.1272), opening in Sūrat Yāsīn (36) and concluding in Sūrat al-Nās (114). Mode of access: Internet. Acquired in 1926 from the bookseller Isaac Benjamin S.E. Yahuda via purchase transacted on his behalf by Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951), his younger brother. Possibly an effaced waqf statement on 'title page' (p.7), with further effaced statements appearing at the head of the recto of the opening leaf of virtually every quire thereafter (see p.25, 45, 65, etc.) occasional marginal corrections.