MS Arabic 566 (Wellcome Collection, Wellcome Trust)

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1 slightly disordered copy of the Qurʼān

Title: al-Qurʼān
Title: القرآن

The folios are somewhat disordered. The last sūrah features in folio 6a, and not in the last folio of this copy (483b), which contains part of the first sūrah.

Incipit: (basmala) fol.3a.1 بسْمِ الِلَّهِ الرَّحْمَں الرَّحِيمِ
Incipit: fol.3a.1 سورة ڡاٿحه الكٿٿ مكية وهى سبع ايات الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبّ الْعَلَمِينَ الرَّحْمَںِ الرَّحِيم . ملك يوْم الديں
Explicit: fol.6b.6 فُلَ اَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ اِلنَّاسِ مَلِكِ اِلنَّاسِ اِلَهِ اِلنَّاسِ مِں شَرِّ الْوَسْوَاسِ الْخَنَّاسِ الَّذِى يُوَسْوِسُ ڢِى صُدورِ النَّاسِ مِںَ نَّةِ [sic] وَالنَّاسِ
Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Unburnished
Extent: 483 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 160 × 107 mm.
Dimensions (written): 130 × 78 mm.
Foliation: Catchwords present.

Collation

483

Condition

Deteriorated

Layout

5a-483

Hand(s)

Script: Maghribī

Ink: Black and red

13 78 1,3 90 30

Decoration

Rubrication

There is some decoration on fol. 2a

Additions:
  • Fol.2a.1 Talismanic note containing tables.
  • Fol.6a.1 Note affirming that the Qur'an is the word of God.
  • Fol.484a.1 Note on the benefits and the merits of certain Qur'anic verses.

Binding

165 × 111 mm. Leather covers; leather satchel.

History

Origin: Undated

Subjects

  • Koran

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