Koranic Science, a Commentary [IO Islamic 1394]

• al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1394 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 101 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

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1394. Size 11^3/4 in. by 6^1/2 in.; foll. 600. Twenty-five lines in a page.

The first part of another Commentary on the Koran by Suyûṭî, entitled الدرّ المنثور فی التفسیر المأثور. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iii. 192, and Bibl. Sprenger. 444.

This commentary consists entirely of traditions. The author relates in his preface that he abridged it from another work of his called ترجمان القران ¹, by omitting the Isnâds, with the sole exception of his own immediate authorities and of the author of each tradition. Accordingly, the explanation of Sû. 1 begins: سورة فاتحة الکتاب و اخرج عبد بن حمید فی تفسیره عن ابرهیم قال سالت الاسود عن فاتحة الکتاب امن القران هی قال نعم. Only the first words of the passages to be explained are given.

The present MS. ends with Sû. 5. It is well written and ornamented. Foll. 77-80 and 81-84 should be transposed. Injured, especially near the end, the leaves having stuck together.

[Hastings.]

¹ See on it Ḥ. Kh. ii. 277.