Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

MS 265 (Manuscript Collections, The Fitzwilliam Museum)

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Contents

A complete copy of the Qurʼān.

Language(s): Arabic

References

Physical Description

Form: codex
393 + 4
Dimensions (leaf): 190 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120 × 75 mm.

Layout

The text is framed by ruled lines in red and gold, 11 lines per page.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: unknown

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquired in Anatolia by Captain Mark Sykes. He gave it to Dr M.R. James who presented it to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1902.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Montague Rhodes James "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum", Cambridge University Press, 1895; with corrections and additions supplied by Marcus Fraser and Giorgia M. Maffioli Brigatti.

Availability

The manuscript can be consulted in the Graham Robertson Study room at The Fitzwilliam Museum, on an appointment only basis. To request an appointment, please email collections@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk citing the manuscript number.

Funding of Cataloguing

The Fitzwilliam Museum

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