Koranic Science, a Commentary [IO Bijapur 303]

al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 303 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 111 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 111. B 303. Size 103/4 in. by 63/4 in.; foll. 525. Seventeen lines in a page. The second part of the preceding work, from Sû. 19 to the end. Written in a large plain hand. A lacuna comprising nearly seven Sûrahs (from the end of Sû. 21 to Sû. 28) is indicated by part of fol. 47v. remaining blank. The MS. terminates abruptly in the commentary on last Sûrah. Inscribed: تفسیر ملتقط نصف آخر تصنیف سید محمد حسینی کیودار1. It remains, however, doubtful whether this be the correct title, or a misnomer derived from the often occurring heading الملتقط. There is a ملتقط المعالم فی التفسیر mentioned in Ḥ. Kh. vi. 108. Cf. Catal. 222, xi., where the author is called Bunduh Nowaz (بنده نواز). 1 Sic, r. کبودان-؟کبوذانی or کبوذان is a village near Nîsâbûr. See Marâṣid, cd. Jnynboll, ii. ۴۷۷, and Johnson’s Persian Dict. S. v.