MS Arabic 566 (Wellcome Collection, Wellcome Trust)
Manuscripts in Arabic
Contents
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 30Decoration
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