B. 



NOTES ON IMPORTANT ARABIC MSS 



I. 



The Qur'an. 



1. 



«• 



Naskh 



A valuable copy of the Qur'an Sharif, written by Yaqut 

 Musta'simI, the celebrated calligrapher, who died in 698 a.h. 

 The first half of the copy is unfortunately missing. There are 

 thirteen lines to a page, of which three are written in bold 

 Naskh. Each of the first two lines in bold 

 by five lines written in small Naskh. 



It appears from the colophon that Yaqut finished this 

 copy in 601 a.h. Illuminated throughout. For another copy 

 by the same scribe see O.P. Lib. Ar. Hand-list No. 6. A com- 

 plete copy by the same scribe is in the Ihtisham al-Dawlah 

 tab., Madras, and another copy is mentioned in E. Blochet's 

 Catalogue de Collection de Manuscrits Orientaux No. 6082. See 

 J.R.A.S 1901 a.d., p. 334, No. 5961. 



Beg :— *jty ^f ij3 pj+ybj l^k* j 



(Wajid Hu., Yahyaganj, Lucknow.) 



2. 



T/l 



A valuable and beautiful copy of the Qur'an Sharif 

 written on deer skin by Dara Shikuh, son of Shah Jahan 

 (d. 1069 a.h. = 1658 a.d.), in a.h. 1051:— 



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cil^ gift f\AA)& fj^m tf£*ti t^F^ fctf *J& \)\± f*1 *^ **P 



J Vide Proceedings of the A.S.B. for 1870, p. 251, where a MS. copy 



entitled §i Mathnawi Sultan Walad" in the hand writ 

 ia mentioned by Blochmann. 



