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1 copy of a Koran from Sub-Saharan Africa

Title: al-Qurʾān
Title: القرآن

A Koran from Sub-Saharan Africa, probably West Africa, written in African ajami script, unbound in a leather case

Colophon:
Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. ?

Layout

Hand(s)

African Ajami script

Binding

Unbound in a leather case

History

Origin: Undated. West Africa

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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