Koranic Science, a Copy of Kashshâf [IO Bijapur 275, 276, 277, 278]

al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 275, 276, 277, 278.in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 54 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

54.

B 275, 276, 277, 278. Size 121/4 in. by 71/2 in.; foll. 726. Twenty-six lines in a page.

Another copy of the Kashshâf, including the whole text of the Koran. Well written. Dated Shawwal, 921.1

This MS. Has been spoiled by damp. It has also many defects, which were supplied in a later hand; but since then a number of leaves of both sets have again fallen out. Originally in four volumes. The first concludes with Sûrah 6 (fol. 184); the second with Sû. 18 (fol. 376); the third with Sû. 38 (fol. 559v.). The beginning of the fourth, being in the second hand, is on the same page.

Catal. p. 219, i.

1 The beginning of the colophon, containing the name of the scribe, has been erased.