Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

ECOM 7 (Eton College Library, Eton College)

Eton Windsor

Contents

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of an Ottoman Koran
An Ottoman Koran written in neat naskhi with surah headings in gold, opening double page of illumination in colours and gold.
Colophon: كتب هذا المصحف الشريف مصطفى ابن يوسف القاضى...تم کابة هذا الكتاب ...فی واسط شهر ذي الحجة لسنة خمس و خمسين و الف
Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. ?

Layout

Hand(s)

Naskh script

Decoration

surah headings in gold, opening double page of illumination in colours and gold.

History

Origin: Middle of Dhu al-Hijah 1055 AH

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

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