Arabic MS 768 (The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
Summary of Contents: The first of fourteen large volumes of an illuminated Qu'ran with interlinear literal translations in Persian and Chagatay Turkish. The set would originally have comprised 30 volumes. This volume contains parts of Juz' 22 but with many gaps.
Title: al-Qurʼān
Title: القران
Title: Juz' 22
Language(s): Arabic, with interlinear translations in Persian and Chagatai Turkish
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: White and cream glazed paper.
Extent: 86 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 366 × 300 mm.
Layout
1 column with three lines of Arabic script, the Persian and Turkish translations below.
Hand(s)
The Arabic text is in large Naskh characters fully vowelled, perhaps of the 15th century. The Persian and Turkish translations are both written in smaller characters in the same hand.
Decoration
Divisions are marked with illuminated pages and ornaments.
History
Origin: 15th century? CE, possibly produced in ; Turkey?.
Provenance and Acquisition
Formerly in the collection of Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford (1812–1880).
Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford (1847–1913).
Bequeathed by Enriqueta Rylands (1843–1908) in 1908 to the John Rylands Library.
Record Sources
Catalogue information compiled by Elizabeth Gow from Alphonse Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester University Press, 1934.
Availability
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