MS. Arab. f. 3 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Contents

1 copy or fragment of al-Qurʼān

Title: Qurʼān

fragments of a Kufic MS. on parchment, containing sūrahs iii. 30-36, 40-55, 131-135, 142-146, 150-160; iv. 16-20, 23-26, 29-33, 39-60; lviii. 8-13, 16-21

Language(s): Arabic

References

[K 285]
Leal, Beatrice, "Metal, Materiality, and Maṣāḥif: Ornamentation in Abbasid Qur’ans", in Ackley, Joseph Salvatore and Wearing, Shannon L.. Illuminating Metalwork: Metal, Object, and Image in Medieval Manuscripts, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 21 ff.

History

Origin: 9th cent.? CE

Provenance and Acquisition

[Any information about a single identifiable episode in the life of the manuscript between origin and acquisition]

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.

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Digital Images

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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