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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of part of surah 20 (Taha), on the verso the end of ayat 47, and on the recto the whole of ayat 48, in early Kufic calligraphy

Title: al-Qurʾān

Title: القرآن

Title: The end of ayah 47 of Surah 20 (Taha) and the whole of ayah 48

A Quranic leaf in very early Kufic calligraphy

Incipit: من ربك والسلام عل من اتبع الهدى / انا قد اوحى الينا من العذاب على من كذب وتولى

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Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 1 f.

Layout

Hand(s)

Kufic script

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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