Add. 1111 (University Library, Cambridge University)
Oriental Manuscripts
Contents
Summary of Contents: Fragment of an Abbasid Qur'ān probably written in the third or fourth century A.H. / ninth or tenth century C.E, containing verses from the Sura al-Fātiḥah (سورة الفاتحة), inscribed in a gilded frame, and verses 1-228 from Sura al-Baqarah (سورة البقرة) are decorated with a rectangular gilded panel. The script seems to correspond to an Abbasid Style intermediate between D.I and D.IV as described by F. Deroche.
Title: al-Qurʼān
Title: القرأن
Title: Qurʼān i:1-ii:228
Title: سورة الفاتحة, سورة البقرة
Language(s): Arabic
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: Parchment
Dimensions (written): 13.3 × 16.0 cm.
Dimensions (written):
Layout
7 lines per page
Hand(s)
History
Origin: undated CE
Provenance and Acquisition
Bought from Professor E.H. Palmer and E.E. Tyrwhitt in 1878.
Record Sources
"Manuscript description based on E. G. Browne: A hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1900", abbreviated by the OCIMCO project team.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
JISC
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