RAS Arabic 1 (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)
Arabic Manuscripts
Contents
1 copy of al-Qurʼān
Title: al-Qurʼān
Title: القرآن
Koran in two volumes. Arabic texts written in fine large naskh, with interlinear Persian translation and copious marginal notes in shikastah. Very finely illuminated first pages and title heads of surahs. Pages of text enclosed in gold and coloured frames. Verses marked with gold leaf, Ajza noted in red. Vol.1 contains the first 18 and part of 19th surah. Vol.2 contains the rest.
Language(s): Arabic and Persian
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 316+356 f.
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History
Provenance and Acquisition
in Gregorian.
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