• [IO Loth 4] القرآن الكريم

al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم : Kufic fragment

This manuscript is now 41A in the India Office collections (shelfmark IO Loth 4)

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), here with notations and hyperlinks].

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41A. Size 6 in. by 81/4 in.; foll. 20. Ten lines in a page.

Another Kûfic MS., containing the following parts of Sûrah 6 and 7:1 (fol. 13*) Sû. 6, 57-61; (fol. 5*) 69-74; (fol. 11) 80-84; (foll. 4* and 9*) 91-96; (fol. 2) Sû. 7, 28-33; (fol. 14) 39-42; (fol. 1) 45-47; (foll. 8*, 7*, 17, 6, 18, 10, 15*, 3) 55-94; (foll. 19, 16*, 12) 155-166.

The last leaf (six lines) contains parts of Sû. 7, 168, 169, with the colophon کتبه علی بن حمدان on the recto.

Clumsy characters, rather cursive. Mostly red, sometimes green dots for vowels. Verses divided in the same way as in the preceding MSS. On several pages the writing has nearly disappeared.

The last page bears six seals, with signatures: viz. of two Ṣafawî kings named Ismâ’îl and ʿAbbâs; of Akbar [sic]; of two servants of Shâhjahân [1592-1666], ‘Inâyat Khân [c. 1621-71] and Fâḍil Khân [d. 1663]; and of I’timâd Khân, a servant of ‘Âlamgîr [1618-1707]. On the first page is written a treaty between several chiefs of Sindh, dated 25 Jumâda I., 1254 [= 16 August 1838], in Persian. This MS. belonged to the Sindh Prize property, and was presented to the Library of the East India House by Lord Dalhousie, 1853.

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1 The leaves have been entirely misplaced in binding; several are also bound upside down, marked above with an asterisk.

[ed note: the manuscript is catalogued in the library as IO Loth 4.]