R.8.12 (Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge)

Oriental Manuscripts

1 fine copy of the Qurʼān

Spaces are left for the headings of the sūrahs, but have never been filled in. The previous owner of the book has numbered the chapters in pencil, and at various places has written marginal notes and interlinear Latin translations.

Language(s): Arabic

References

no. 929

Palmer, p. 2

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 814 ff.

Condition

Hand(s)

Delicate Naskh handwriting, Persian style.

Decoration

Adorned with a naqshī or coloured border.

History

Origin: Undated

Provenance and Acquisition

Written at the beginning of the manuscript: Anno CIꓛ IꓛC XXII Angli civitatem ORMI Expugnantes Me flammis eripuerunt, tandemque Dominum nactus Adamum Bowen qui Bibliothecæ huic Sanctæ et Individuæ Trinitatis Me donavit M DC XXVIII.

Record Sources

"Manuscript description based on "E. G. Browne: A supplementary hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1922", and "E.H. Palmer A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, London 1870".

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

Trinity College Cambridge

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World