Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

R.13.4 (Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge)

Oriental Manuscripts

Contents

Summary of Contents: A clearly written copy of the Qurʼān, with directions for taking the 'sortes Coranicae' at the beginning.
Language(s): Arabic

References

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Levant paper
Extent: 232 ff.
Dimensions (leaf):

Condition

The book is stained throughout, possibly from the effects of a sea voyage.

Hand(s)

Copyist apparently of North African descent.

Decoration

Rubrication

History

Origin: Undated

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented to the library by Adam Bowen in 1632.

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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