• Koranic Science [IO Bijapur 285] ٱلْكَشَّاف, glosses on

Commentary on al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 285 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 60 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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B 285. Size 81/2 in. by 51/4 in.; foll. 217. Seventeen lines in a page.

Glosses of SAIYID SHARÎF JURJÂNÎ (‘Alî b. Muḥammad, d. A. H. 816 [1413 CE]) [otherwise ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAli al‐Ḥusaynī al‐Jurjānī] on the Kashshâf [of Zamakhsharī, ob. 1044], terminating at Sû. 2, 23. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. v. 187.

Clearly written. Dated Sunday, 4th Rajab, 939 [=30 January 1533 CE, but the day seems to corresponds to Thursday]. In good preservation; one defect after fol. 88.

Bîj. Libr., A. H. 1003 [=1594-95 CE].  Cat. 221, i. 2. [ed note: = Ḥaqīm Ḥamid al-Dīn's Urdu catalogue prepared at the behest of H. B. Frere] 

[ed note: Quick link to other manuscripts of works by Jurjānī.]

[ed note: Guard cover over the original binding dated 8 October 1925]