Koranic Science with Persian Poems [IO Islamic 2165]

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2165 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. 47 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>47.</p> <p>2165. Size 9^1/2 in. by 5^3/4 in.; foll. 92. Seventeen lines in a page.</p> <p>کتاب سجاوندي مسمي بوقوفي</p> <p>Another copy of the preceding work, well written. The following Persian couplet is written twice at the beginning:</p> <p>بفهم آیت بصری و کوفی</p> <p>وقوفی خوب میخواهد وقوفی</p> <p>نیک</p> <p>At the end the following tetrastich:</p> <p>روزیکه روح دامنِ عمرم رها کند</p> <p>وین خاکِ تیره بند زبندم جدا کند</p> <p>یا رب نگاهدار تو ایمان آنکسی</p> <p>کین خطّ من بخواند و بر من دعا کند</p> <p>The seal of the Muḥammad Nad&icirc;m Allah (A.H. 1180), with several <em>Persian</em> Poems of his; an explanation of the different kinds of pauses and their signs, in <em>Persian</em> couplets; a dialogue between Abu Bakr and &lsquo;Al&icirc;, intended to show the equality of their dignity; and various other notes are on the blank pages at the beginning and end.</p> <p>[Coll. Fort William, 1825.]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>