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al-Qurʼān: Kufic fragment [IO Loth 3] القرآن الكريم

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم : Kufic fragment</li> <li>This manuscript is now 40A in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 3. 40 A. Size 43/4 in. by 7 in.; foll. 46. Nine lines in a page. Another <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kufic">Kûfic</a> fragment, containing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surah">Sûrah</a> <a href="https://quran.com/1">1</a>, 6 نعمت- <a href="https://quran.com/2">2</a> , 160 کحبّ; large, long-shaped characters; vowel points red, green, or yellow, in a few cases also blue. Sometimes, as if to indicate various readings, small lines are added on د, in green or red, instead of diacritical points. Verses divided by gold ornaments; every tenth marked by larger ones, which contain the number. The title of Sû. 2 is on a gold ground. One leaf is missing between foll. 7 and 8, and two between foll. 32 and 33. The last leaf, which is half destroyed, belongs to another fragment (in five lines). Both this and the first page have been entirely gilt. In a leather binding, covered with silk. Some one has noted that the MS. was written by <a href="http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ali-b-abi-taleb">ʿAlî</a> (fol. 46).

al-Qurʼān: Kufic fragment [IO Loth 2] القرآن الكريم

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم : Kufic fragment</li> <li>This manuscript is now 39A in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 2. 39 A. Size 4 in. by 6 in.; foll. 52. Three lines in a page. Another <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kufic">Kûfic </a>fragment, containing (foll. 1-34) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surah">Sûrah</a> <a href="https://quran.com/2">2</a>, 254-282, and (foll. 35-51) Sû. <a href="https://quran.com/3">3</a>, 14-32. Large characters, rather cursive; the لا flourished in a peculiar way. A few red dots for vowels. Verses marked in the same way as in the preceding MS [=<a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3931737">Catalogue no. 1</a>], bordered with paper, highly ornamented and gilt. The last leaf-on the back of which are also Kûfic characters, but nearly effected-bears on the recto, within ornaments, the words: کتب حسن بن علی (sic). On some pages the letters have vanished; the margin is slightly injured. Bound in gilt leather.

al-Qurʼān [IO Islamic 1371] القرآن الكريم

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1371 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 6. 1371. Size 73/4 in. by 51/4 in.; foll. 318. Fourteen lines in a page [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasch%C4%AB">Naskh</a>] Neatly written and richly ornamented. With marks of pauses, sections, etc. Ends with the usual epilogue, صدق الله الخ. Notes for practical use, in Persian, are added on the margin. Preceded by a Persian introduction (foll. 1-16), compiled by order of <a href="https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/tipu-sultan-SIM_7562?s.num=0&s.rows=20&s.mode=DEFAULT&s.f.cluster=Encyclopaedia+of+Islam&s.start=0&s.q=%28tipu+sultan%29">Tippu</a> [reg. 1782-99]. It contains- <ol> <li> Foll. 1-13. Tables stating the place of revelation, the number of verses, words, letters, and رکوع, and the peculiarities, of every Sûrah. </li> <li> Fol. 13. A table showing how often each letter of the alphabet occurs in the Koran. </li> <li> Fol. 14. A list of the verses distinguished by a سجدة. </li> <li> Fol. 15. A list of grammatical mistakes on reciting the Koran, which would be blasphemous. </li> <li> Fol. 16. Some mnemonic verses, enumerating the verses which treat of certain subjects. </li> </ol> This introduction is written in Shikastah. In the original binding, which is highly gilt, both outside and inside, and bears the favourite inscription:1 لاَ یَمَسُّهُ إلَّا المُطَهَّرُونَ تَنْزِیلٌ مِنْ رَبِّ العَالَمِینَ [i.e. Only a purified person from the Lord of the Worlds will touch it] [<a href="https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/tipu-sultan-SIM_7562?s.num=0&s.rows=20&s.mode=DEFAULT&s.f.cluster=Encyclopaedia+of+Islam&s.start=0&s.q=%28tipu+sultan%29">Tippu</a>.] ---------------------------------- 1 Sûrah 56, 78 and 79.

القرآن الكريم al-Qurʼān [IO Islamic 996]

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 996 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 8. 996. Size 83/4 in. by 51/2 in.; foll. 341. Thirteen lines in a page. Well written, highly ornamented and gilt. Marks of sections, etc. At the end the following colophon: تمت...بخطّ ا لضعیف محمد حَیات شب پنجشنبه وقت چهارم پاس هجری سنه ۱۰۱۲ جلوس سنه ۳۷ [=CE 1603-04] The last two pages have been filled up with a prayer in a different hand. [Tippu.]

[IO Islamic 35A] القرآن الكريم

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 35A in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/2/mode/2up?view=theater">7</a>. 35 A. Size 8 in. by 5 in.; foll. 522. Eleven lines in a page.   A splendid copy; gilt throughout, with double front ornaments. Marks of pauses, sections, etc. On the last page is the prayer usually recited after perusing the Koran, with an introduction in Persian. Well written, “under royal auspices,” by Ḥâjjî ‘Abdallah. This copy was intended for the special use of <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10088">Tippu</a>, as is stated in a note at the end (fol. 520). Various notes and directions, in different hands, on the margin, very often resembling those in the preceding MS <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3942208">[= Catalogue no. 5]</a>. Preceded, also, by the same introduction. One leaf is missing after fol. 22. Fol. 26 is much torn. In a red leather binding, bearing all the marks and inscriptions mentioned in <a href="https://digital.onb.ac.at/OnbViewer/viewer.faces?doc=ABO_%2BZ185712206">Stewart's Catalogue</a>, Pref. p. v.

القرآن الكريم al-Qurʼān [IO Islamic 25A]

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 25A in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), here with further notations and hyperlinks]</li> </ul>   <ul> <li> </li> </ul> 12. 25 A. Size 121/2 in. by 71/2 in.; foll. 31. About fifty lines in a page. Another thirty-leaved copy; closely written in minute characters. Foll. 7-10 should be placed after fol. 29. According to a note on the fly-leaf, this copy formerly belonged to Tippu. [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company_College">East India College</a>.]

القرآن الكريم al-Qurʼān [IO Islamic 14B]

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 14B in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), here with further notations and hyperlinks]</li> </ul> 13. 14 B. Size 61/2 in. by 4 in.; foll. 322. Fifteen lines in a page. Imperfect at the beginning, the first leaf commencing with فیکون, the last word of Sû. 2, 111. Neatly written, marks of pauses, etc. On the first thirty leaves glosses are added, in the same hand, extracted from different works on orthography and on the various readings of “the Seven.” Concluding: تم شد فرقان حمید بید ضعیف عبدالنبی. Various notes in different hands on the margin. In a red leather binding. Inscriptions prove that the MS. formerly belonged to Tippu’s library. [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company_College">East India College</a>.]

القرآن الكريم al-Qurʼān [IO Islamic 32A]

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 32A in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 16. 32 A. Size 131/4 in. by 81/2 in.; foll. 325. Thirteen lines in a page. A very elegant copy, resembling that described in <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3974826">Cat. Bodl. ii, p. 60</a>. The first two pages contain within two large circles, ornamented with gold, blue, etc., the verse, Sû. 17, 90. The next two pages, entirely ornamented in the same way, contain in the middle Sûrah 1, written in white Thulth on a golden ground, with the words لَا یَمَسُّهُ الخ underneath. The next two pages, which contain the beginning of Sû. 2, are entirely gilt. All the following pages are written on a dyed ground, sprinkled with gold. The first, middle, and last lines are in large Thulth, the middle line dividing each page in two equal squares. The last two Sûrahs are written and ornamented like the first; and the next two pages, entirely ornamented, contain the same prayer as is found in the Bodl. MS. The last two pages contain (like the Bodl. MS.) rules of divination in Persian verses. Written in large Nasta’lîḳ. The scribe names himself Ḥusain Fakhkhâr. The whole MS. has been carefully mended and bordered with modern paper.

[IO Islamic 1252] القرآن الكريم

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1252 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 15. 1252. Size 181/2 in. by 10 in.; foll. 390. Thirteen lines in a page. Written in large characters, without ornaments. Marks of pauses, sections, etc. At the end: تمّت کلام الله.[God's words have been fulfilled]. In the original binding, on which the inscription لَا یَمَسُّهُ الخ [Do not touch it etc] is frequently repeated. [<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipu_Sultan">Tippu</a>.]

[IO Islamic 1A] القرآن الكريم

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1A in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 28 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 28. 1A. Size 93/4 in. by 6 in.; foll. 329. Fifteen lines in a page. An elegant copy, transcribed by one Muḥammad, A.H. 1267 [=1850-51 CE]. Marks of pauses, sections, etc.; Persian glosses. “Received from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Royle">Dr. Royale</a>, July, 1856.”1 -------------------------------------------- 1 The same note is found in the following six MSS [to number catalogue number 34].

القرآن الكريم al-Qurʼān [IO Islamic 17A]

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 17A in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 26. 17A. Size 93/4 in. by 61/4 in.; foll. 437. Eleven lines in a page. Plainly written; ornamented and gilt. Marks of pauses, etc.; various readings of “the Seven.” Some glosses in the same hand, and others in Persian, in a different hand, concerning the division of the verses. Names of <a href="http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1790-1820/member/johnson-richard-1753-1807">R. Johnson</a>, Brinsley Fitzgerald, and a succession of later owners, down to 1848. [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company_College">East India College</a>.]

[IO Islamic 3A] القرآن الكريم

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 3A in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 29 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 29. 3 A. Size 71/2 in. by 41/2 in.; foll. 364. Fourteen lines in a page. Resembles the <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4007606">preceding MS</a>. Copied apparently by the same scribe, who here calls himself Muḥammad Kâẓim.

القرآن الكريم al-Qurʼān [IO Islamic 1475]

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1475 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul>   17. 1475. Size 6 in. by 4 in.; foll. 418. Eleven lines in a page. Written in small characters, with marks of pauses, sections, etc. Ornamented and gilt. The leaves have been misplaced in binding. Foll. 146-148 should stand between 136 and 137; after fol. 286 the following is the correct order of the leaves: 295, 296, 288-293, 297, 294, 287, 298; after fol. 308 they should stand thus: 310, 311-315, 309, 316; and after fol. 386, thus: 389-398, 387, 388. According to a note on the fly-leaf, this is the Koran on which <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuja-ud-Daula">Shujâ’al-daulah</a> “swore to the treaty of 1768.” It was given to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cartier">J. Cartier</a> [1733-1802], Esq., and by him presented to the Library through the hands of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Inglis">Sir H. Inglis</a> [1744-1820].” The first leaf bears the seal of Shujâ’al-daulah, and on it are written, in somewhat illegible Shikastah, the terms of a treaty of alliance with the English, but dated 8 Dhû-alḳa’dah, 1183 (=5 March, 1770).

القرآن الكريم al-Qurʼān [IO Islamic 14A]

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 14A in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 18. 14 A. Size 18 in. by 10 in.; foll. 387. Eleven lines in a page. Written in very large characters; the first letter of every line in red. Marks of pauses, sections, etc. Ornamented and gilt. Transcribed by Ḥâfiẓ Luḳmân. [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company_College">East India College</a>.]

f. 1v [IO Islamic 1267] القرآن الكريم

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1267 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 10 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3946751">IO Islamic 1267</a>, f.1v.

ff.1v-2r [IO Islamic 1267] القرآن الكريم

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1267 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 10 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3946751">IO Islamic 1267</a>, ff.1v-2r.

القرآن الكريم al-Qurʼān [11], ff. 1v.-2r.

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1376 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4088773">IO Islamic 1376</a>, ff. 1v-2r.

القرآن الكريم al-Qurʼān [11], f. 1v.

القرآن الكريم al-Qurʼān [IO Islamic 3113]

<ul> <li>al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 3113 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata:<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth"> Otto Loth, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a>, (volume 1), no. 21 here with further notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 21. 3113. Size 141/2 in. by 91/2 in.; foll. 209. Seventeen lines in a page. A splendid copy, with various ornaments in colours and gold. Marks of a double division, viz. the usual one into thirty sections (جزء), and another into seven portions (سبع), with the subdivisions (fourths) of both; notes of pauses, etc. Readings of Abu Bakr. Dated A. H. 1141 [= 1728-29 CE]. The binding is of green velvet, worked with silver thread.