A. 1 (University Library, Cambridge University)
E. G. Browne Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: A Qur'án, imperfect at the beginning, lacking súras I-V and part of VI, written in a very peculiar hand, unlike any that I have seen, attributed by the vendor, the late Hájji 'Abdu'l-Majid Belshah, to the seventh (thirteenth) century, but by the experts of the British Museum to the seventeenth or eighteenth century of our era. Ff. 275 of 21 6 x 12'8 c. and 12 ll.; n. d.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: Ff. 275
Dimensions: 21.6 × 12.8 cm.
Layout
12 lines
Hand(s)
A very peculiar hand, unlike any that I have seen.
History
Origin: Undated, 11th/17th or 12th/18th centuries AH; Gregorian CE
Provenance and Acquisition
Bought by E. G. Browne from Majid Belshah in London.
Bequest of E. G. Browne.
Record Sources
Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
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