Part Forty-Seven (1) of the same copy:
287, Institute;
80/37, al-Qarawiyyīn Collection.
It begins with verse 17 of Surah al-Najm and ends with the conclusion of Surah al-Wāqiʿa.
The recto of its first folio bears the following:
“The forty-seventh volume of Jāmiʿ al-Bayān ʿan Taʾwīl Āy al-Furqān (The Comprehensive Exposition of the Interpretation of the Verses of the Criterion), by Abū Jaʿfar Muhammad ibn Jarīr al-Tabarī.”
The second folio bears the following:
“It contains, from the words of Allah—Majestic and Exalted is He—in Surah al-Najm, His words:
‘His sight did not stray, nor did it overstep.’
[al-Najm: 17]
and Surah al-Qamar.”
Beneath it is the endowment inscription previously cited for Part Two, which states:
“This is its forty-seventh volume.”
Its opening reads:
“In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful. Your aid, O Lord! Discussion of the interpretation of His words—Majestic and Exalted is He:
‘His sight did not stray, nor did it overstep.’”
Its ending reads:
“The volume has been completed with praise of Allah and through His gracious aid. It will be followed, Allah willing, in the next volume by the exegesis of Surah al-Hadīd:
‘Whatever is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Allah, and He is the Almighty, the All-Wise. (1) To Him belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. He gives life and causes death, and He has power over all things. (2) He is the First and the Last, the Manifest and the Hidden, and He has knowledge of all things.’
[al-Hadīd: 1–3]”
The volume comprises 149 medium-format folios, with 16 lines to a page.
A fragment from the same copy:
295, Institute;
40/791, al-Qarawiyyīn Collection.
It contains the exegesis of verses from Surah al-Taghābun through Surah al-Tahrīm, then from Surah