A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the library of the India Office / by Otto Loth.

  • Great Britain. India Office. Library
Date:
1975
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Credit: A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the library of the India Office / by Otto Loth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    37. 34a. An octagon, perimeter 64 in.; foll. 346. Twelve lines in a page. Written in a minute but very legible character, with marks of pauses, etc. The first four pages bear golden ornaments. Part of the margin has been cut off. Bound in green leather, with a gold clasp. 38. 3090. Size 72 in. by 54 in.; foll. 10. Fourteen lines in a page. A fragment of the Koran, between blank leaves. Well written, with marks of pauses, etc. It contains the end of the 11th and nearly the whole of the 12th section, ¢.e. SG. 10, 107—12, 48; the rest of the 12th section (to v. 52) has been supplied in a clumsy modern hand. On a page near the beginning is a note in Persian, stating that the title of this incomplete Arabic book could not be found out (!). 39. 3048. Size 8 in. by 5} in.; foll. 28. lines in a page. The 23rd and 24th *}> of the Koran (Si. 36, 27-41, 46). Plainly written in a Malay hand. 40. B 268. Size 7 in. by 4% in.; foll. 12. Thirteen lines in a page. Strah 18 of the Koran. Vowel-points are but seldom added. Thirteen Mostly without division of verses. KORANIC SCIENCE. 41, B 270. Size 61 in. by 43 in.; foll. 89. lines in a page. (sic) cs\,i)\ Udine Late) yi wa} ks ¢\ hea) The celebrated treatise on the Seven Versions of the Sixteen Koran, by Anu ‘Amr ‘Othman b. Sa‘id b. ‘Othman Dani (d. a.n. 444). Cf. H. Kh. ii. 487; Cat. Mus. Brit. 69; Bodl. ii., No. rxxxmz, 4 (where is the same title as in this MS.); Noéldeke, Gesch. d. Qorans, p. 387. Neatly written ; concluding (fol. 87), pmad| ColsS ra pe ell ye) ogy aided oye Eye» AN) Qacx? ep he py) dau) Cewell Coy well A) ed oye ch UT pry Babel ar | oy easal deal] Llexny (sic) dam laly ASG Lea, bi Fol. 877. The form of the sJlexs!, as given by the different readers (Sd\exuJ\ 4 Tall Wdie), followed by a Persian tract on fasting in Ramadan, beginning 58% ole Ned Alby Gla, ple wre 6 sell JE Bales Coe pr Spent 9) ei 5! ba er written in the same hand. On one of the fly-leaves is a list of the ten readers, V3 ; with their principal disciples. Seven foll. haye been prefixed to the MS., on the last of which is a new title, written by ay Dee Gy? als pls, who bequeathed the MS. to the Bijaptr Library, a.u. 1028, Catalogue, p. 234, Tujweed i. 42. B 269. Size 6in. by 5 in.; foll. 114. From twelve to fifteen lines in a page. Another copy of the Zuaisir, imperfect both at the beginning and end. Clearly written; of the 10th century of the Hijrah. It begins with the words: | yxy d¢nsty ee bdo fe eo! \goucdy (= fol. 12 of the preceding MS.), and ends with ill, padly als IW Sle, 28 oo! (= fol. 78 of the preceding MS.) Injured by damp, especially uear the beginning. There is written, upon the edge, drnuel | cols ps, and fol. 13 is wrongly inscribed Jy x <7 Of. Catal. 284, v. 1 Various reading (.