Koranic Science, a Commentary [IO Islamic 752] Notes on Bayḍāwī

• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 752 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 84 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

84.

752. Size 11 in. by 6^1/2 in.; foll. 412. Twenty-one lines in a page.

Marginal notes on Baiḍâwî’s Commentary, as far as Sûrah 6, by ‘IṢÂM AL-DÎN (Ibrâhîm b. Muḥammad b. ‘Arabshâh Isfarâ’inî, d. A. H. 943). See Ḥ. Kh. i. 477, and Codd. Havn. ii. p. 44.

This MS. begins with the last words of the preface:

رجاء ان یهدینی الی صراط مستقیم قوله الحمد لله الذی ..... نذیراً اقتبس اقتباساً لطیفاً من قوله تعالی تَبَارَکَ الَّذِی نَزَّلَ الْفُرْقَانَ

Well written in Nasta’liḳ, by Muḥammad Fâḍil.

In the original binding of Tippu’s library.¹

[Tippu.]

¹ See Stewart’s Catal., Pref. p. v.