القرآن الكريم al-Qurʼān [IO Islamic 1475]

al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1475 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]. 17. 1475. Size 6 in. by 4 in.; foll. 418. Eleven lines in a page. Written in small characters, with marks of pauses, sections, etc. Ornamented and gilt. The leaves have been misplaced in binding. Foll. 146-148 should stand between 136 and 137; after fol. 286 the following is the correct order of the leaves: 295, 296, 288-293, 297, 294, 287, 298; after fol. 308 they should stand thus: 310, 311-315, 309, 316; and after fol. 386, thus: 389-398, 387, 388. According to a note on the fly-leaf, this is the Koran on which Shujâ’al-daulah “swore to the treaty of 1768.” It was given to J. Cartier [1733-1802], Esq., and by him presented to the Library through the hands of Sir H. Inglis [1744-1820].” The first leaf bears the seal of Shujâ’al-daulah, and on it are written, in somewhat illegible Shikastah, the terms of a treaty of alliance with the English, but dated 8 Dhû-alḳa’dah, 1183 (=5 March, 1770).