MS 81-1972 (Manuscript Collections, The Fitzwilliam Museum)
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Contents
A complete copy of the Qurʼān.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 343 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 495 × 370 mm.
Dimensions (written): 330 × 205 mm.
Layout
Every page of text is set with rules of blue, gold, vermillion and pale green, 12 lines.
Hand(s)
Decoration
The frontispiece has a double page decoration, richly ornamented, in gold, blue and colours. There are decorative headings, tail-pieces and rosettes throughout the book.
History
Origin: 773 AH / 1372 CE with 16th century decoration.
Provenance and Acquisition
Owned by Professor F.C. Burkitt, who deposited on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1911.The loan was renewed by his son, Miles Crawford Burkitt, F.S.A., in 1949, and then it was bequeathed by him in 1972. Bequeathed by Arthur Cecil Edwards in 1951.
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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