• al-Qurʼān: Kufic fragment [IO Loth 5] القرآن الكريم

<p>القرآن الكريم al-Qurʼān: Kufic fragment</p> <ul> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 42A in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> <strong>Otto Loth, </strong></a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636"><em><strong>A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</strong></em></a><strong>, (volume 1), here with notations and hyperlinks]</strong></li> </ul> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.35737/page/1/mode/2up"><strong>5</strong></a>.</p> <p>42A. Size 63/4 in. by 91/2 in.; foll. 181. Sixteen lines in a page.</p> <p>A large fragment of a <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kufi">K&ucirc;fic</a> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q428">Koran</a>, containing (foll. 13-20)2 <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Koransuren">S&ucirc;rah</a>. <a href="https://quran.com/5"><strong>5</strong></a>, 112-6, 95; (foll. 25-34) <a href="https://quran.com/6"><strong>6</strong></a>, 108-7, 63 (fol. 36) <a href="https://quran.com/7"><strong>7</strong></a>, 104-126; (foll. 37-38) 7, 138-160; (fol. 35) <a href="https://quran.com/8"><strong>8</strong></a>, 20-34; (fol. 39) <a href="https://quran.com/9"><strong>9</strong></a>, 7-19; (fol. 21) 9, 38-51; (fol. 41) 9, 74-86; (fol. 42) 9, 108-118; (fol. 24) <a href="https://quran.com/10"><strong>10</strong></a>, 12-23; (fol. 22) 10, 34-50; (fol. 23) <a href="https://quran.com/11"><strong>11</strong></a>, 29-44; (foll. 1-4) <a href="https://quran.com/15"><strong>15</strong></a>, 99-16, 70; (foll. 5-12) <a href="https://quran.com/20"><strong>20</strong></a>, 34-21, 68; (foll. 66-75, 116-125, 86-105, 76-85) <a href="https://quran.com/21"><strong>21</strong></a>, 88-31, 38; (foll. 40, 44-51, 43, 53, 140-147, 56, 63) <a href="https://quran.com/34"><strong>34</strong></a>, 18-39, 63; (foll. 57-64) <a href="https://quran.com/41"><strong>41</strong></a>, 20-43, 37; (foll. 65, 54, 134-136) <a href="https://quran.com/43"><strong>43</strong></a>, 86-46, 11; (foll. 137-139, 55, 126) <a href="https://quran.com/46"><strong>46</strong></a>, 35-48, 26; (foll. 163-166, 162) <a href="https://quran.com/50"><strong>50</strong></a>, 1-53, 7; (foll. 133, 127-129, 148-151, 130-132, 152-161, 106-115, 167-176) <a href="https://quran.com/53"><strong>53</strong></a>, 36-89, 3; (foll. 177-181) <a href="https://quran.com/93"><strong>93</strong></a>, 10 to the end.</p> <p>Written in rather slender characters, approaching to <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasch%C4%AB">Naskh</a>. Frequent red dots for vowels. Titles of S&ucirc;rahs, in a still more cursive character, and in red, are regularly inserted, but often differ from the usual names, being always derived from the first word. Every tenth verse is marked with the letters serving for figures, according to the older or Maghrib&icirc; order. Also every two hundredth verse is marked on the margin.</p> <p>At the end, in the same hand, کتبه عثمان بن عفان. [See <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37731">ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān</a>]</p> <p>Seal and signature of <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8597">Akbar </a>[1542-1605] and others on the last page. "Presented to the Library of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_House">East India House</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Henry_Rawlinson,_1st_Baronet">Major Rawlinson</a>, C. B., the Hon. Company's Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, and H. M.'s Consul at Baghdad, March, 1845."</p> <p>----------------------------</p> <p>2 The leaves have been entirely misplaced in binding.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>