القرآن الكريم al-Qurʼān [IO Islamic 32A]

al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 32A in the India Office collections.

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

16.

32 A. Size 131/4 in. by 81/2 in.; foll. 325. Thirteen lines in a page.

A very elegant copy, resembling that described in Cat. Bodl. ii, p. 60. The first two pages contain within two large circles, ornamented with gold, blue, etc., the verse, Sû. 17, 90. The next two pages, entirely ornamented in the same way, contain in the middle Sûrah 1, written in white Thulth on a golden ground, with the words لَا یَمَسُّهُ الخ underneath. The next two pages, which contain the beginning of Sû. 2, are entirely gilt. All the following pages are written on a dyed ground, sprinkled with gold. The first, middle, and last lines are in large Thulth, the middle line dividing each page in two equal squares. The last two Sûrahs are written and ornamented like the first; and the next two pages, entirely ornamented, contain the same prayer as is found in the Bodl. MS. The last two pages contain (like the Bodl. MS.) rules of divination in Persian verses. Written in large Nasta’lîḳ.

The scribe names himself Ḥusain Fakhkhâr.

The whole MS. has been carefully mended and bordered with modern paper.