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Summary of Contents: Surah VII v.131 to Surah IX v.69 of the Koran lacking the first twelve words of v.131
Part of a Spanish illuminated manuscript of the Koran, written in fine maghribi in gold on vellum, illuminated devices in margins, stamped brown morocco with central foliate medallion, with flap.

Title: al-Qurʾān

Title: القرآن

Title: Surah VII v.131 to Surah IX v.69 of the Koran lacking the first twelve words of v.131

Incipit: انما طيرهم عند الله ولكن كثرهم لا علمون

Colophon:

Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 47 ff.

Layout

Hand(s)

Maghribi script

Decoration

Spanish illuminated manuscript; illuminated devices in margins.

Binding

stamped brown morocco with central foliate medallion, with flap.

History

Origin: Undated.

Provenance and Acquisition

This manuscript is part of a small collection of Islamic manuscripts held at Eton College Library, which are not part of the separate ‘Pote Collection’. (The Pote Collection was given in 1788 by Edward Ephraim Pote to Eton College and King’s College, Cambridge and is now held on loan at the Cambridge University Library).

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on M.S.Q. Fraser, Islamic manuscripts in the Eton College Library, 1996.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

Eton College

Subjects

Koran

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