Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 144* (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Contents

1 copy of al-Qurʾān

Language(s): Arabic and Persian

Complete, but damaged and thoroughly disordered copy of the Arabic Qurʾān with occasional annotations and corrections in the margins.

Dated colophon: completed … for Masīḥ al-Zamān Khān the ṭabīb… (date obscured). Datable to the late eighteenth century.

Not foliated.

Indications in margins for sujūd, rukūʿāt, aḥzāb (s̲uls̲, rubʿ, khams, niṣf, and so on) in coloured inks.

Rough naskh; annotations in various cursive hands.

Crude illumination added (probably later) throughout.

Metallic pigments oxidised.

Lacking original covers.

Folios unbound and disordered; wormholes, stains, creases, smudging, tearing, unevenly cropped, later repairs.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: circa 250 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 150 × 100 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1750 - 1799 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876

1876

Government of India

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