Koranic Science, a Commentary [IO Bijapur 309]

al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 309 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 93 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 93. B 309. Size 8 in. by 51/4 in.; foll. 181. Twenty-one lines in a page. Short notes on select passages of Baiḍâwî’s Commentary, imperfect both at the beginning and end. The author cannot be ascertained. The present fragment begins at Sû. 3, 106,2 with the words امرهم خلاف (sic) ذلک ای کانو آمرین بالمنکر و ناهین عن المعروف.There is a defect after fol. 158, comprising nearly the whole of Sûrahs 60-70. The end is also wanting. Carelessly written; the titles of the Sûrahs are often omitted or misplaced in the latter portion. Coloured lines round each page. Inscribed on fol. 97: تفسیر القران. Cf. Catal. 222, xiii. 2 i. p. ۱۷۰, I. 21 Fleischer.