Saʻdī Jalabī ʻAlī min tafsīr al-Qurʼān : manuscript, [1644].

Commentary on the Koran.Text rubricated and enclosed within gold borders; white space with gold borders separates discussions of each chapter of the Koran; marginal notes and corrections in hand of copyist; on p. [1], table of contents; on p. [5], name of copyist: bi-khaṭṭ taʻlīq katabahu al-sharīf bi-Ṣadr al-Dīn Zādah; on p. [5], invocation against bookworms: kabikaj.copying repeated in Turkish in illuminated roundel on p. [847].Date of completion of original manuscript and of copying in colophon: qāla muʼallifuhu al-ʻallāmah mawlānā Saʻd Afandī ... waqaʻa al-ikhtitām ... yawm al-arbuʻāʼ khāmis Jumādá al-ūlá al-munkharaṭ fī silk shuhūr sanat arbaʻ wa-arbaʻīn wa-tisʻumiʼah [i.e. 10 October 1537] tamma ... yawm al-arbuʻāʼ arbaʻ ʻashar Muḥarram al-ḥarām fī shuhūr sanat arbaʻ wa-khamsīn wa-alf [i.e. 13 March 1644] ... ʻalá yad ... Ibn Muḥammad Amīn Rūḥ Allāh al-shahīr bi-Ṣadr al-Dīn Zādah; date ofCommentary on the Koran.Mode of access: Internet.AnonymousGrand Muftī of Istanbul, founder of the Dār al-Qurrāʼ there.Purchased in Cairo, 1924. Once part of the personal manuscript collection of Sultan Abdülhamid II of Turkey