al-Daftar al-awwal wa-al-thānī min al-Kashshāf

الدفتر الاول والثاني من الكشاف

First volume of Zamakhsharī's commentary of the Qurʼān, comprising the text from Sūrat al-Fātiḥah to Sūrat al-Kahf

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar, 1075-1144
Format: Manuscript Book
Language:Arabic
Published: Samarqand, [1405]
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Description
Summary:First volume of Zamakhsharī's commentary of the Qurʼān, comprising the text from Sūrat al-Fātiḥah to Sūrat al-Kahf
Item Description:Inscription in red pencil in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "...? 34". Inscription in black ink in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 902". Inscription in black ink in Arabic numerals on the pastedown of the upper cover: "196"
Ms. codex
Origin: Copy completed on Friday, 14 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 808 [Oct. 9, 1405] in Samarqand in the mausoleum? of Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī by Jalāl ibn ...? (colophon, fol. 475a)
Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh (professional hand) in black ink with use of red. Soft cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Fol. 9-12 are later replacements on European paper. The commented text is written in red on the margins. Marginal annotations on the beginning of the text, apparently by the same hand as the main text. Several inscriptions on fol. (ii)b and 1a. Table of contents by a later hand on fol. (ii)a. Leaves apparently wanting between fol. 6 and 7, fol. 61 and 62. Catchword on the verso of the last fol. of each quire (quaternions)
Title from colophon (fol. 475a). Title on tail of text block: "Tafsīr al-Kashshāf"
Physical Description:ii + 476 leaves: paper ; 270 x 170 (202 x 105) mm. bound to 270 x 170 mm
Microfilm negative available for reproduction