Arabic MS 763 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)
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Summary of Contents: The fourth of fourteen large volumes of an illuminated Quʾranic manuscript with interlinear literal translations in Persian and Qarakhanid Turkic. The set, probably from the 14th century, would originally have comprised 30 volumes. This volume contains parts of Juzʾ 9.Title: al-QurʿānTitle: القران1b-86bTitle: Juzʾ 9Title: جزء 9Language(s): Arabic, with interlinear translations in Persian and Qarakhanid Turkic1b-63bTitle: Sūrat al-ʾAʿrāfTitle: سورة الاعرافSūrah 7:88-206.
Folio 60a: text expands onto the outer and upper margins.
Incipit: قال الملا الذين استكبرواExplicit: عن عبادته ويسبحونه وله يسجدون64a-86bTitle: Sūrat al-ʾAnfālTitle: سورة الأنفالSūrah 8:1-40.
Text finishes on folio 86a; illuminated medal on folio 86b.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحم الرحيمExplicit: موليكم نعم المولئ ونعم النصيرPhysical Description
Form: codexSupport: White and cream glazed paper.Extent: 86 folios (ii+86+ii)Dimensions (leaf): 360 × 293 mm.Dimensions (written): 230 × 180 mm.Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil in Western Arabic numerals. Folios 46a is blank.Layout
1 column with three lines of Arabic script, the Persian and Turkic translations below.
Hand(s)
The Arabic text is in large Naskh characters fully vowelled, perhaps of the fourteenth century. The Persian and Turkic translations are both written in smaller characters in the same hand.
Decoration
Folios 1b-2a: double full-page illumination with the first seven words of Sūrah 7:88.
Small illuminated verse markers at the end of each verse, larger, more elaborately illuminated markers (almond-shaped and circular) after every five and ten ayas.
History
Origin: 14th century, probably CE; possibly produced in ; Transoxiana (A. Ata narrows it down to the Ispicab region; see Ata 2020).Provenance and Acquisition
Folio 1b: round-shape black seal.
Formerly in the collection of Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (1812–1880) Crawford, Alexander Crawford Lindsay, 1812-1880. His bookplate on the back paste-down: 'Bibliotheca Lindesiana 4/D'.
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) Rylands, Enriqueta, 1843–1908 in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847–1913) Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of, 1847–1913 .
Bequeathed by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) in 1908 to John Rylands Library.
Record Sources
Description based on A. Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library Manchester (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1934), no. 28, revised and expanded by Zsófia Buda.Availability
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Bibliography
A. Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library Manchester (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1934), no. 28 [763].Eckmann, János. "Ein Ostmitteltürkische interlineare Koranüberseztung." Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher 31 (1959)Eckmann, János. "Two Fragments of a Kuran Manuscript with Interlinear Persian and Turkic Translation." Central Asiatic Journal 13 (1969): 287-290.Eckmann, János. "Eastern Turkic Translations of the Koran." Studia Turcica 17 (1971): 149-159, especially 153-155.Ata, Aysu. "The Rylands Manuscript: The First Translation of the Kuran into Turkic." Man and Nature in the Altaic World.: Proceedings of the 49th Permanent International Altaistic Conference, Berlin, July 30 – August 4, 2006. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2020, pp. 14-23.Funding of Cataloguing
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