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Art. XVI.—Description of an old Persian Commentary on the Ḳur'án

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Extract

The collection of Persian manuscripts preserved in the Cambridge University Library is, compared with the collections of the British Museum or the Bodleian, sadly insignificant both in extent and value. The total number of volumes which it comprises scarcely exceeds 300, and of these only a small proportion is of any conspicuous worth or interest. Some few, however, there are which deserve to be made known to Orientalists, and amongst these is the manuscript which forms the subject of the present notice.

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Original Communications
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1894

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References

page 417 note 1 For the communication of the proofs of this unpublished work, as well as for much valuable help in tracing the history of the Erpenius manuscripts, I am indebted to the learning and courtesy of Mr. J. W. Clark, Registrary of this University.

page 419 note 1 I quote from the notes of Professor Mayor's unpublished Visit to Cambridge of Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach referred to in the last footnote.

page 424 note 1 The celebrated author of the Anvár-i-Suheylí and other well-known works, who died A.H. 910 (A.D, 1504–5). Concerning his commentaries on the Kur'án, the Maváhib-i-'Aliyya, and the larger Jawáhiru't-tafsír, see Rieu's, Catalogue, vol. i, pp. 911Google Scholar.

page 428 note 1 Abú Is-ḥáḳ Aḥmad b. Muḥammad eth-Tha'labí died A.H. 427 (=A.D. 1035–6).

page 473 note 1 Sic, not as in the received text.

page 490 note 1 Pointed and glossed in a later hand.

page 509 note 1 A word or seems to have been accidentally omitted here.

page 511 note 1 Sic, for

page 511 note 2 Sic, for

page 513 note 1 Sic, for

page 518 note 1 Sic, with tashdid.

page 520 note 1 Sic, for