Koranic Science, A Commentary [IO Bijapur 301]

al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 301 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 51 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 51. B 301. Size 101/2 in. by 61/2 in.; foll. 263. Twenty-five lines in a page. The First Part of a Commentary on the Koran, ascribed to the celebrated ḲUSHAIRÎ (Abu’l-Ḳâsim ‘Abd al-karîm b. Hawâzin, d. A. H. 465). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. ii. 376. This commentary is merely mystical, quoting even mystical poetry, but always without naming the authors. Only the beginning of the passages commented is given, introduced by قوله تعالی. This volume concludes with Sû. 18, and is imperfect at the beginning. The first words are: النعمی و اکرم الحسنی. Written in a bad Nasta’lîḳ hand; red lines round the pages. Worm-eaten and injured by damp. Cat. p. 223, xvii.