Type of description:

From the original

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Others

Current_location

Institution

University Library Erlangen

Collection

formerly uinversity library of Altdorf

Present shelfmark

ms. 1284

Former shelfmark

Total pages

719 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

Released place

Other dates

1689

Other places

Buda

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Complete ms. codex of Baydawi's Tafsir. The codex was presented to the university of Altdorf on 20 Nov. 1689 by Master Johannes Friedrich Weisbeck of Hungary. He describes it as a "liber ex patria allatus" (a book carried off from its homeland) which strongly suggest it was taken as spoils during the Great Turkish War which was still raging.Weisbeck himslef is not aware of the content of the book. This is added on the same page by a different, scholarly hand (possibly Wagenseil?), identifying the Arabic codex as Beidawi's Tafsir and noting its significance and value. fol. 1 the entry of Baydawi in d’Herbelot’s Bibliotheque orietnale is copies out. next fol. (dedication) Bibliothecae Universitatis Altdorfinae, Librum hunc Arabicum, ex patria allatum memoriae ergò consecrare voluit M. Johannes Ferdinandus Weisbeck Poson. Hung. d. 20. Nov. Ann. 1689. [altera manu] Est expositio Al-Corani auctore Beidawio, quem Maraccius aliique passim adducerent : estque alicuius apud orientales auctoritatis. Totus Alcorani textus minio est insertus : atramento scripta, sunt expositiones et commentaria, saepe commenta, dialecto Arabica conscripta. Bene sit Dom. Weisbeckio, qui nobis hunc thesaurum consecrauit. Integer, nec ulla parte mutilus est codex. Elegant Arabic inscription on the tail of the codex identifying it as Baydawi's Tafsir: hadha kitab tafsir baydaei.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov