القرآن الكريم al-Qurʼān [9]

• al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم
• This manuscript is now 730 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].

9.

730. Size 15 in. by 10 in.; foll. 363. Thirteen lines in a page.

Beautifully written on a dyed ground, sprinkled with gold. The first, middle, and last lines in Thulth.

Tastefully ornamented throughout. Marks of pauses, sections, etc.

In a red leather binding, bearing the inscription لاَ یَمَسُّهُ إلُّا المُطَهُّرُونَ. [i.e only the purified one touches it].

[Tippu.]