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 9^1/2 in. by 5^3/4 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.]