Koranic Science, a Copy of Kashshâf [IO Bijapur 287]

• al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم
• This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 287 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 59 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

59.

B 287. Size 10^1/2 in. by 6^3/4 in.; foll. 501. Twenty-seven lines in a page.

The last part of a voluminous Super-commentary on the Kashshâf, by Sharȧf aldîn al-Ḥusain b. Muḥammad ṬAIYBÎ, (d. A. H. 743), from Sû. 35 to the end. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. v. 185, and Flügel, Hdss. Wien, iii., 74.

Beginning: قوله و عن ابن عباس ما کنت ادری ما فاطر السموات. Written in Nasta’lîḳ, of about the tenth century. Various defects, and the whole final portion, have been supplied in another, indifferent handwriting. One leaf, containing the end of the author’s epilogue, is missing at the end. Injured at the beginning.

Cat. p. 221, i. 8 (?).