Fuṣūl al-mufaṣṣal

Title:

Fuṣūl al-mufaṣṣal
فصول المفصل

Alternative title:

Tafsīr-i Nabī
كتاب الفصول في علم التذكير من نوع الحديث وفن التفسير
فصول مفصل
فصول مفصل جلد اول
تفسير نبي

Creator:

Naṣīr al-Dīn Nabī ibn Mursil al-Tūqātī
نصير الدين نبي بن مرسل التوقاتي

Date:

[17--?].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 14Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper suggests late 17th or early 18th century.Accompanying materials: Scrap with writing between pp.246-247.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 95. Fusul mufassal."Binding: Pasteboard(s) covered in dark red brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap, now lost) ; board linings in yellow-tinted laid paper ; upper cover bears blind-stamped scalloped mandorla (compare Déroche class. OSd) along with tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light yellow and cream, intact ; overall in quite poor condition with lower cover and flap entirely lost, some abrasion, lifting and losses of leather, loss of flap, delamination of boards, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper mainly with 11 laid lines per cm. (horzontal), chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart (vertical), and grapes with bar above (carrying initials) watermark ; another type of European laid paper with 12-13 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart (horizontal) and coat of arms watermark with cross flanked by lions above two circles also appears ; well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs ; overlining in red.Script: Naskh ; clear, though at times somewhat unsteady, Turkish hand ; partially serifed with right-sloping head serifs appearing irregularly on joined alif, lām of definite article, etc. ; effect of tilt to the left ; pointing mainly in distinct dots ; rounded and freely ligatured ; adheres fairly closely to horizontal though occasional superscripting or very slight effect of words descending to baseline.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: V-2+IV (16), 14 V(156), IV (164), 27 V(434) ; chiefly quinions ; quaternion carrying table of contents inserted in opening anomalous quinion ; p.461 left partially blank ; p.462 and final three leaves left blank ; lacks proper catchwords though last word of final line on the verso of each leaf is usually repeated at the beginning of the first line on the following recto ; foliation in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips two pages each between pp.125-126, pp.315-316, pp.825-826 and pp.827-828 ; repeats p.691 and p.720 twice).Explicit: "آمين يا آله العالمين ويا خير الناصرين برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين"Incipit: "البحر مداد الكلمات ربي لنفد البحر الآية ولكن ما لا يدركه كله لا يتركه كله تمت فصل في فضائل الفاتحة عن رسول الله صلى الله تعالى عليه وسلم انه قال لابي بن كعب الا اخبرك بسورة لم تنزل في التورية والانجيل والزبور والقرآن مثلها"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Fine copy (perhaps an odd first volume) of assorted excerpts from a commentary on the Qurʼān by Naṣīr al-Dīn Nabī ibn Mursil al-Tūqātī. Lacks introductory matter ; opens in Faḍāʼil Sūrat al-Fātiḥah.

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Qurʼan Commentaries Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Arabic
Hadith Criticism, interpretation, etc. Early works to 1800.

Extent:

434 leaves : paper ; 161 x 111 (113 x 55) mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/005968622

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