MS 374** (Manuscript Collections, The Fitzwilliam Museum)
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Contents
Summary of Contents: A copy of al-Qurʼān
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 309 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 170 × 120 mm.
Dimensions (written): 120 × 75 mm.
Layout
15 lines to a page.
Hand(s)
Decoration
Every page of text is framed in fillets of gold. The double-page opening is highly gilded and has polychrome floral scrolls on gilded frames. It also presents decorative headings and marginal rosettes.
History
Origin: 16th century CE
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Francis Wormald and Phyllis M. Giles "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum acquired between 1895 and 1979 (excluding the McClean Collection)", Cambridge University Press, 1982; 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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