Koranic Science [IO Bijapur 270] varia with كِتابُ التَّيْسِيْرِ

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 270 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 41 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

KORANIC SCIENCE.

41.

B 270. Size 61/4 in. by 41/2 in.; foll. 89. Sixteen lines in a page.

کتاب التیسیر لحفظ مداهب القراي (sic) السبعة الخ.

The celebrated treatise on the Seven Versions of the Koran, by Abu ‘Amr ‘Othmân b. Sa’îd b. ‘Othmân DÂNÎ (d. A. H. 444). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. ii. 487; Cat. Mus. Brit. 69 [ed. note: = no. LXXXVII, pp. 68-71, Add. 7232 Rich]; Bodl. ii., No. LXXXIII, 4 (where is the same title as in this MS.); Nöldeke, Gesch. d. Qorâns, p. 337.

Neatly written; concluding (fol. 87),

تم کتاب التیسیر بحمدالله.... فرغ من تعلیقه یوم الاثنین الثامن عشر من شهر الله الاعظم رجب الاصب لسنة اربع عشرین (sic) و سبعمایة العبد اسمعیل بن احمد الحافظ رحم الله لمن نظر و دعا لکاتبه و لصاحبه.

Fol. 87v. The form of the استعاذة, as given by the different readers (مذهب القرّآء فی الاستعاذة), followed by a Persian tract on fasting in Ramaḍân, beginning

قال النبی عم من صام رمضانَ و قام لیالیها1... ان سَیّدی کی شمۀ از نعمت او شنیدی چنین می فرماید, written in the same hand.

On one of the fly-leaves is a list of the ten readers, قرّاء, with their principal disciples. Seven foll. have been prefixed to the MS., on the last of which is a new title, written by علم الله بن عبدالرزاق, who bequeathed the MS. to the Bîjâpûr Library, A.H. 1028 [=CE 1618-19]. Catalogue, p. 234, Tujweed i.

1 Various readings لیلها.

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