Koranic Science, a Copy of Kashshâf [IO Bijapur 282, 283]

• al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم
• This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 282, 283 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 57 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

57.

B 283, 282. Size 12^3/4 in. By 6^1/2 in.; foll. 251. Twenty-three lines in a page.

الربع الرابع من تفسیر الکشاف عن حقائق التنزیل مؤلف الامام العلامة ذی الشان الجلیل استاذ الدنیا شیخ العرب و العجم حجة الاسلام و قدوة اهل العالم ابی القاسم محمود بن عمر الزمخشریّ البسه الله تعالی لباس الغفران و رزقه الاتکآء علی رفرفٍ خُضر و عبقریّ آمین بالنّبی الامین¹.

The last quarter of the Kashshâf; beginning with Sû. 18. Beautifully written, of about the eighth century. Rubrics sometimes omitted. At the end the author’s epilogue. In two volumes, the first ending with Sû. 48 (fol. 99). Both the beginning and (in a less degree) the end are injured by damp.

¹ This inscription was written on the title-page in Rabî’ I., 921. The name of the owner who wrote it has been erased.