Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

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.

Language(s): Arabic

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.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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