Tafsîr-related Arabic Manuscripts in the Vatican Library

The Vatican Library holds a big number of manuscript collections. Among these collections, along with other languages, Arabic-Islamic manuscripts are found. This work deals with Tafsîr-related Arabic manuscripts in the Vatican Library and aims to determine the names and main fields of these manuscripts as well as their chronological and physical data. In the Manuscripts Department of Vatican Library, Tafsîr-related manuscripts are basically on Qur’ânic sciences, Tafsîr books and Tafsîr commentaries.