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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    The Preface begins: H1% le S\ sill al) wns! 6-\. * ag ; obyit Lng“ ecel L ily ileal eels Lee peg “ey I pas poss coLyl uy &ia3. The author relates that, after finishing his J] e«=*, he read for the first time Zamakhshari’s Kashshdf, and made extracts from it, which he afterwards published as a separate book, serving as a Supplement to his first work, and entitled _ slas\ 3 sls. Finally, at the instance of his son, Abu Nasr al-Hasan, he combined the con- tents of both in a third and more abridged work,—the present one. As to the time of its composition, the author writes as follows in the Epilogue (fol. 398v.) : AUN gay daw 81) he ure phe uroltll emul aye Bade od pe SN etl apt ope ol) ead ahey bgt 3 ' ¥ <8) * bad This MS. consists of two volumes of the same paper, executed by different hands. The first (to Sd. 18) is well written, and has some marginal notes. The two following lines have been.added at the end (fol. 196v.) : Glos 3 pPdy 9) ols Lisle yy me | ods together with the following notice : 4), re SI tba de op det bt yiaydell Gertudll Gok I ad) a) alll ji pleall Mo | ww padi! up Das oy! de! hes ped ope IS! dol oy eS LS dr sbi, ABI ody upped g eae des yaed The second volume, from 84. 19 to the end, is likewise well written. The scribe was also a Shi‘ite, for at the end he blesses ‘Ali and all the Imams. Fol. 21 should follow fol. 15, and fol. 48 should come after fol. 6. Seals and notes of several owners on the title-page, one of them of a.. 963. [ Hastings. ] 65. 43 a. Size 25 in. by 152 in.; foll. 503. Fifty lines in a page. The First Part (to Sa. 18) of the large Commentary on the Koran prs) eee) » properly styled a law a x)\, by Fakhr al-din Abu’l-fadl Muhammad b. ‘Omar RAzi (d. a... 606), who finished it in a.. 602. Cf. H. Kh. vi. 5; Ibn Khallikan, ed. Wiistenfeld, No. 411; and Cat. Bodl. ii. 701. It begins with a long and detailed explanation of the first Sirah, which forms a separate book.! The first words are (fol. 9): ‘cxslelLdt asl lod Laid, coil a esl Vlawy ‘crtoleall aS) lacs) dais le Lids, Ls oI _!—followed by sole! and dLeuwdl, and a paraphrase of Sirah 1. Then the commentary begins: al) sj) be Udes crt he ete ks 1s ae bl box a| ¥ jqus eye ut It contains a dediv in three Uys, the beginning of the first of which is quoted in H. Kh., and three books, each subdivided into 4.1 and laws . I. Fol. 10v. Aly Osc] ays wy Klaas eohell ust They are: II. Fol. 19. eam sl Bas Anolon! Cale 3; and TIL. Fol. 26. dll! 5) 3 plAl. The commentary on the following Strahs (St. 2 from fol. 37v. to 177) is also very extensive, consisting rather of separate tracts, which are often subdivided into different (ulue. The whole text of the Koran is inserted in portions. The present MS. consists of two volumes. The first, which concludes with Si. 3 (on fol. 220), has the following colophon : pall allio sill eSlN anda Gy! CS dad (sic) Ladle LaSl jay Adah 2? ipudill g LN alll deuo'y dive g All) Wacsrdaees Cb des * al on csjltl