MS 374** (Manuscript Collections, The Fitzwilliam Museum)

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Contents

Summary of Contents: A copy of al-Qurʼān
Title: al-Qurʼān
Title: القرآن
Language(s): Arabic

References

MS 374**

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.

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History

Origin: 16th century CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Bequeathed by T.H. Riches in 1935.

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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