A miscellany of texts in Persian and Arabic on Qur'anic sciences, Geometry, Numismatics, History, and Medicine. — Multiple dates; Kanpur. | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

A miscellany of texts in Persian and Arabic on Qur'anic sciences, Geometry, Numismatics, History, and Medicine. — Multiple dates; Kanpur.

Shelfmark

MS. S. Digby Or. 129

Place of origin

Kanpur.

Date

1831-1832

Language

Arabic

Persian

1. ff. 1b-4a Author: Unknown Title: Risālah mutaʻalliqah bi-al-tajwīd Title: رسالة متعلقة بالتجويد

2. ff. 4a-4b Author: Unknown Title: A short risālah explaining the symbols used to mark the Qur'anic text for purposes of correct recitation.

3. ff. 5a-5b Author: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās, ?-688 ابن عباس، عبد الله، 3 ق.هـ-68 هـ Title: Two traditions of Ibn ʻAbbās on the esoteric meaning of the letters of the basmalah, and the meaning of Sūrat al-Fātiḥah.

4. ff. 5b-6b Author: Unknown Title: Dhikr Munzalāt al-Qurʼān Title: ذكر منزلات القرآن

5. ff. 6b-7a Author: Unknown Title: Dhikr asāmī al-Qurrāʼ wa-Rāwīyān Title: ذكر أسامي القرّاء وراويان

6. ff. 8b-79a Author: Euclid Title: Shīsh Maqālah-ʼi Uqlīdis Title: شیش مقالۀ اقلیدس

7. ff. 81b-90a Author: Unknown Title: A work on the coinage of India from Ghaznavid times to the time of Shāh ʻĀlam II.

Author: ff. 90b-95b Unknown Title: Qiṣṣah-ʼi ibtidā-yi Nādir Shāh tā āmadanish bi-Hind Title: قصۀ ابتدای نادر شاه تا آمدنش بهند

9. ff. 96b-119a Author: ʻImād al-Dīn Maḥmūd Qummī عماد الدين محمود قمّى Title: Risālah-ʼi Chūb-i Chīnī Title: رسالۀ چوب چینی

Form

codex

Physical extent

ff. 119

Hands

Elegant Nastaʻlīq Maqṣūd ʻAlī

Acquisition

Donated to the Bodleian Libraries by the Trustees of the Simon Digby Memorial Charity, April 2015.

Provenance

The collections of Mr. Simon Digby.

Subject

Nādir Shāh, Shah of Iran, 1688-1747

Koran--Evidences, authority, etc.

Revelation--Islam

Medicine

Koran--Exegesis

Koran--Recitation

Numismatics

Geometry

Euclid's Elements

Materia medica

India--History

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