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• Qurʼan—Commentaries—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Notes

• Anonymous.
• Fols. 78; 24.8 x 18.1 cm.; written surface 21.5 x 13 cm.; 20-22 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with few vowel signs.
• A fragment of a work elucidating the difficult passages in the Koran.
• Beg.: لان کل واحد منهما ممتنع من الفساد عارٍ منه
• Ending: ... اسحق وىعقوب وکلا جعلنا
• A few marginal notes. Title appears on first page as Mushkilāt al-Qurʼān lil-Qaysī; but this fragment when compared with al-Qaysīʼs work is found to differ. MS in good condition but mended; Arabic binding. Probably from Xllth century. MS is evidently one of the oldest in collection; diacritical points not fully indicated.
• Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.

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