Thursday, 5 December 2024

India (chronologically)

As I have not posted about Indian maṣāḥif chronologically, here are some links (and low quality images):
1829 with Persian
1831 Calcutta, type, pleasing
1837 type
1840 lithograpgy
Agra 1264/1847

1850 Lucknow
1286/1852 Delhi, Sahāran­pūrī's Aḥmadi Press see below
Delhi 1281/1864
1866 two lithographies
1867 Lucknow
1868 cheap bestseller
1869 three (twice Bombay)
1870 three
Kanipur 1287/1870
Kanipur 1289/1872 ↑
Ludhiana 1296/1878 →

1875 Bombay

1876 Bareilly

1878 Lucknow


1879 translation by Shah ‘Abd al-Wahhāb Rafi ad-Din ad-Dihlawī
Bombay 1299/1882
1883 (and 2000) Cochin
Allahbad 1887

1888 Dilhi Persian, Urdu
Agra 1895
Kanpur 1897
Lukhnau 1363/1905
Ludhiana 1364/1907
today (in German)
Taj company Ltd.
Indian spelling (in German)
Bombay spelling
izhar nūn in Bombay prints
Bombay prints for the Dutch Indies
for Central Asia
Indian pause signs (German)
tajwid ‒ many from Lahore

The title of the 1852 print was: al-kitāb allaḏī qāla allāh taʿAlA fī waṣihī laʾin iǧtamaǧat ...
While the base text is Ḥafṣ it has information in other vowels in the inner margin and different rasm on the outer margins.

Bombay 1358/1959








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