MS McClean 188 A (Manuscript Collections, The Fitzwilliam Museum)

The Fitzwilliam Museum

A fragment of the Qurʼān.

Title: Qurʼān

Title: juz 16, surah 18:74 - surah 20:135

Title: القرآن

Language(s): Arabic

References

MS McClean 188

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: 94 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 140 × 94 mm.

Dimensions (written): 90 × 55 mm.

Layout

No rules, 5 lines to a page.

Hand(s)

Decoration

Coloured and decorated surah headings, with vowel points in red and puctuation in yellow.

Seal(s):

History

Origin: 11th-12th century CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Bequeathed by Mr Frank McClean in 1904.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on James Montague Rhodes "A Descriptive Catalogue of the McClean Collection of Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum", Cambridge University Press, 1912; 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.

Subjects

Koran

Comments

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Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World