Koranic Science, a Commentary [IO Islamic 971]

• al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 971 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 67 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

67.

971. Size 13^3/4 in. by 8 in.; foll. 532. Thirty-three lines in a page.

A portion of a Commentary on the Koran, styled التفسیر الکبیر, from Sûrah 32 to the end; apparently belonging to the preceding work, or rather to one of its continuations, either by Najm al-dîn Ḳamûlî (d. A. H. 727), or by Shihâb al-dîn Khuwaiyî (d. A. H. 639). See Ḥ. Kh. vi. 5.
Beginning:

سور السجدة... لما ذکر الله فی السورة المقدمة دلائل الوحدانیة و ذکر الاصل الآخر و هو الحشر و ختم السورة بها بل (sic) لبیان الرسالة فی هذه السورة فقال آلم.

Well written. Colophon: تمت هذا الکتاب التفسیر الکبیر الاعظم الکاتب الفقیر الحقیر الی الله المحتاج حافظ جیُون (؟) عزلت نشین ساکن دار السلطنة احمد آباد.

The first pages are highly ornamented and gilt; gold and coloured lines round each page.

[Johnson.]