Koranic Science with Persian Poems [IO Islamic 2165]

al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2165 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 47 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 47. 2165. Size 91/2 in. by 53/4 in.; foll. 92. Seventeen lines in a page. کتاب سجاوندي مسمي بوقوفي Another copy of the preceding work, well written. The following Persian couplet is written twice at the beginning: بفهم آیت بصری و کوفی وقوفی خوب میخواهد وقوفی نیک At the end the following tetrastich: روزیکه روح دامنِ عمرم رها کند وین خاکِ تیره بند زبندم جدا کند یا رب نگاهدار تو ایمان آنکسی کین خطّ من بخواند و بر من دعا کند The seal of the Muḥammad Nadîm Allah (A.H. 1180), with several Persian Poems of his; an explanation of the different kinds of pauses and their signs, in Persian couplets; a dialogue between Abu Bakr and ‘Alî, intended to show the equality of their dignity; and various other notes are on the blank pages at the beginning and end. [Coll. Fort William, 1825.]