Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Others

Current_location

Institution

Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Collection

Oriental Collection

Present shelfmark

Arab F. 4

Former shelfmark

Total pages

363 fols

Folio measures

380x185mm

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Anwār al-tanzīl wa-asrār al-taʾwīl

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

[م]ت

Colophon position

Fol. 363v

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

An undated copy of the beginning of al-Bayḍāwī’s well-known commentary on the Koran, also known simply as Tafsīr al-Bayḍāwī. It only contains the first 17 sūras. 363 fols.; 21–26 lines/page; gilded frames on fol. 1v and 2r; illuminated headpiece on fol. 1v in gold, red, blue, mauve and brown ink; p. d. 380×185mm, w. s. varies; marginal notes in Arabic in black ink; partial leather binding with marbled paper covers; with flap; in good condition; paper: glazed and not glazed laid paper with watermarks; script: nasḫī; written by different hands; partially vocalized; ink: black; diagonal catchwords in black ink; rule-borders in red ink; headings in red ink; the text of the Koran is marked by a line in red ink; old repairs on several folios; pagination error: f. 332 is followed by f. 334. The manuscript was donated to the Library by Ármin Vámbéry (1832–1913). According to his inscription in Hungarian (fol. 1r), this copy has remained in Hungary since Ottoman times. It was bought for Vámbéry on the 10th of March 1868 for a few coins from an old woman in Nyitra [today: Nitra in Slovakia] by Vámbéry’s friend Zsigmond [Sigismund] Schiller (1847–1919), publicist and botanist. Vámbéry’s stamp on fols. 1v, 2r, 357v and 363v.

Entry author

Marina Santana