Koranic Science [IO Bijapur 270] varia with كِتابُ التَّيْسِيْرِ

<ul> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 270 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><strong><em><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a></em>, (volume 1), no. 41&nbsp;here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>KORANIC SCIENCE.</p> <p>41.</p> <p>B 270. Size 6^1/4 in. by 4^1/2 in.; foll. 89. Sixteen lines in a page.</p> <p>کتاب التیسیر لحفظ مداهب القراي (sic) السبعة الخ.</p> <p>The celebrated treatise on the Seven Versions of the Koran, by Abu &lsquo;Amr &lsquo;Othm&acirc;n b. Sa&rsquo;&icirc;d b. &lsquo;Othm&acirc;n <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81003045/">D&Acirc;N&Icirc;</a> (d. A. H. 444). Cf. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka%C5%9Ff_az-Zun%C5%ABn">Ḥ. Kh</a>. ii. 487; <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4973232">Cat. Mus. Brit</a>. 69 [<strong>ed. note</strong>: = no. LXXXVII, pp. 68-71, Add. 7232 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius_Rich">Rich</a>]; Bodl. ii., No. LXXXIII, 4 (where is the same title as in this MS.); <a href="https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz72233.html">N&ouml;ldeke</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4643884">Gesch. d. Qor&acirc;ns</a>, p. 337.</p> <p>Neatly written; concluding (fol. 87),</p> <p>تم کتاب التیسیر بحمدالله.... فرغ من تعلیقه یوم الاثنین الثامن عشر من شهر الله الاعظم رجب الاصب لسنة اربع عشرین (sic) و سبعمایة العبد اسمعیل بن احمد الحافظ رحم الله لمن نظر و دعا لکاتبه و لصاحبه.</p> <p>Fol. 87<em>v</em>. The form of the استعاذة, as given by the different <em>readers</em> (مذهب القرّآء فی الاستعاذة), followed by a <em>Persian </em>tract on fasting in Ramaḍ&acirc;n, beginning</p> <p>قال النبی عم من صام رمضانَ و قام لیالیها¹... ان سَیّدی کی شمۀ از نعمت او شنیدی چنین می فرماید, written in the same hand.</p> <p>On one of the fly-leaves is a list of the ten readers, قرّاء, with their principal disciples. Seven foll. have been prefixed to the MS., on the last of which is a new title, written by علم الله بن عبدالرزاق, who bequeathed the MS. to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijapur_Collection">B&icirc;j&acirc;p&ucirc;r Library</a>, A.H. 1028 [=CE 1618-19]. Catalogue, p. 234, Tujweed i.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>¹ Various readings لیلها.</p> <ul> <li>[<strong>ed note</strong>: Quick <a href="https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/work_2935">link</a> to other copies of the same text]</li> </ul>