Koranic Science, a Commentary [ IO Bijapur 311]

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 311 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. 112 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>112.</p> <p>B 311. Size 9^1/4 in. by 6^1/2 in.; foll. 421. Twenty-three and twenty-five lines in a page.</p> <p>The final portion of a concise Commentary (ممزوج) or paraphrase of the Koran, in the mystical way; title and author not ascertained.¹</p> <p>It begins with S&ucirc;rah 7, thus: سورة الاعراف سمّیت بها لانها من المنازل الرفیعة لاهل الکمال المقتضین علی سائر الطوائف فشانها اولی بالاعتبار من سائر الشیون المذکورة فی هذه السورة بسم الله الجامع للکمالات.</p> <p>The commentary on each following S&ucirc;rah begins in the same way (به or سمّیت بها). Next follows an ever-varying paraphrase of the Basmalah; and it concludes with a pious peroration.</p> <p>Clearly written in two different hands for, and probably in part by, Sh&acirc;h Makhd&ucirc;m Ḳ&acirc;dir&icirc;, about A.H. 1100. Imperfect at the end. Single leaves are wanting after foll. 150, 293, and 412.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>¹ On the title-page (sic) تفسیر الحر.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>