MS McClean 201.2 (Manuscript Collections, The Fitzwilliam Museum)

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Fragments from al-Qur'an

Title: al-Qurʼān

Title: القرآن

Language(s): Arabic

References

MS McClean 201.2

Physical Description

Form: folios

Support: Parchment

Extent: 2 ff. - bifolio

Dimensions (leaf): 590 × 360 mm.

Dimensions (written): 460 × 275 mm.

Layout

13 lines to a page

Hand(s)

Decoration

Binding

Seal(s):

History

Origin: 11th 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