Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

ms. 1504 (SOAS Library, School of Oriental and African Studies)

Special Collections

Contents

1 copy of al-Qurʼān

Note on fol. 310a reads "William Canning the gift of Claudius James Rich Esq., Jan.20. 1812 Bagdad

Language(s): Arabic

References

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 309 f.
Dimensions (leaf): 17 × 10.5 cm.
Dimensions (written): 12 × 6.5 cm.

Layout

Hand(s)

Neat vocalised naskhi hand. Illuminated frontispieces and borders, surah headings in red.

History

Provenance and Acquisition

Presented to the Library by Dr. Barnett

Record Sources

"Manuscript description based on Adam Gacek : Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1981".

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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