ECOM 10 (Eton College Library, Eton College)
Eton Windsor
Contents
Summary of Contents: The second half of a Moroccan Koran, comprising surahs XIX to the end, written in maghribi script with an opening illumination.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: ff.
Layout
Hand(s)
Maghribi script
Decoration
Illuminated opening.
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
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