Koranic Science by IBN JAZARÎ [IO Islamic 1435]

al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1435 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 48 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

48.

1435. Size 93/4 in. by 6 in. Twelve lines in a page.

Foll. 6-16. IBN JAZARÎ’s (Muḥammad b. Muḥammad, d. A. H. 833) المقدّمة, or Treatise in Verse on the Pronunciation of the Koran. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 78; Cat. Bodl. ii. 190.

Well written in a large hand, with vowel-points. In narrow columns. The margin is wholly filled up with Persian glosses, written in small Shikasta. Leaves have been frequently inserted on which other glosses are written.

The rest of the volume contains Persian treatise on similar subjects.-See Persian MSS.

[Johnson.]