Koranic Science, a Commentary [IO Bijapur 279] انوار التنزیل و اسرار التأویل

al-Qurʼān. انوار التنزیل و اسرار التأویل

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 279 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 70 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

70.

B 279. Size 10 in. by 71/4 in.; foll. 570. Twenty-five, twenty-three, and twenty-one lines in a page.

BAIḌÂWÎ’S (d. A. H. 685) Commentary on the Koran, entitled انوار التنزیل و اسرار التأویل. Cf. Ḥ. Kh., 469 sqq., and the edition of Professor Fleischer. On the author, Cat. St. Petersb. p. 17, and Lugdun. iv. 3 [=Catalogus codicum orientalium Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae].

Complete in one volume; written in a good Persian hand, of the ninth century [= 15th century CE]. With numerous notes. The first leaf is wanting; both the beginning and end of the MS. are injured, and it is also stained by damp.

Fol. 567, which was taken for the final one, bears the correct title. The three following leaves were erroneously attributed to the تفسیر مدارک (see below), and the whole volume was also described as Zamakhsharî’s commentary.1 Cf. Cat. p. 222, ix. and xiv.

1See fol. 5.

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