Koranic Science Taisîr [IO Bijapur 272] varia with الشاطبیة

• This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 272 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 43 here with notations and hyperlinks].

43.

B 272. Size 9^1/2 in. by 7^1/2 in.; foll. 116. Seven lines (verses) in a page.

1. (foll. 1-92). A metrical version of the preceding work, by Abu’l- ḳâsim b. Fîrruh b. Khalaf b. Aḥmad Ru’ainî SHÂṬIBÎ (d. A. H. 590 [=1194 CE]). It is entitled: حرز الامانی و وجه التهانی, but commonly called الشاطبیة. See Ḥ. Kh. iii., 43; Catal. Bodl. ii., p. 323; Nöldeke, Gesch. d. Qorâns, p. 337 sq.

Well written in a large hand, with vowel-points. The first two pages ornamented with red lines. Interlinear and marginal notes.

        2. Several tracts on the versions of the Koran:

Fol. 93r. The first Sûrah, with all the unusual readings, inscribed سورة الفاتحة بقراءة الشاذة; written in a large character.

Fol. 93v. A short Persian tract, beginning

بعضی از احکام ورش اگر میان کسره ورا ساکنی حایل باشد

Fol. 95v. A list of the ten readers and their disciples.

Fol. 96v. The beginning of a treatise on Orthoepy, ascribed to MUḤAMMAD SAMARḲANDÎ. It commences:

هذه رسالة سمرقندی من مصنفات

الحافظ محمد سمرقندی الاول فی تجوید فاتحة الکتاب

All the general principles of reading are exemplified from the first Sûrah, as usual. Abbreviations are used for the names of the readers, according to the system of Shâṭibî. Some confusion begins on fol. 105v., where a passage from fol. 102r. (الوقف علی الهمزة الخ) is repeated, but with a different conclusion on fol. 107r., where the MS. Abruptly ends. After some blank leaves, it recommences in the middle of fol. 108r. with the heading ذکر ذال اذ (which is also added as a catch-word to the former passage). It remains, however, doubtful whether this latter fragment belongs to the same treatise. Badly written.

Worm-eaten and stained by damp.

Bîj. Libr. A. H. 1003 [=1594-95 CE]. Catal. p. 234, Tujweed ii.

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