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Qurʼan -- Manuscripts

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Detail of page from the Compendium of Chronicles by Rashid al-Din. Shows text with central miniature depicting the Sultan Luhrasp, who ruled the Mazandarin Province of Iran during the late 15th century, seated on a throne, surrounded by attendants.
Detail of page from the Compendium of Chro...

Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

 Fonds
Identifier: Or Ms
Scope and Contents This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine,...
Dates: 10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Or Ms 148: القرآن al-Qur'an, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 148
Scope and Contents A complete copy of the Qur'an from Sulṭān Tippū-Ṣāḥib's (d. 1799 C.E.) library.Tippū was born in 1165 A.H., 1749 C.E. and succeeded his father, Ḥaydar ‘Alī, as Sulṭān of Mysore in 1197 A.H., 1782 C.E. He was killed in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, while defending his city Seringapatam against the British and their allies, the Niz̤ām and the Marhattas in 1214 A.H., 1799 C.E.The titles of the sūrahs (chapters) are in large characters in...
Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 149: القرآن al-Qur’ān, undated (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 149
Scope and Contents

A complete copy of a 30-leafed, or sī-varaqī, Qur'an. The sī-varaqī was a popular Qur'an manuscript format in South Asia from the seventeenth-century onwards.


The first two pages are richly illuminated with gold, and pages are gold-lined round the margins throughout. The periods are also gold-filled, and the binding includes gold-lined stamps.

Dates: undated (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 150: القرآن al-Qur’ān, 1135 A.H., 1722 C.E.

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 150
Scope and Contents A complete copy of the Qur'an.There are inscriptions in the margins in Persian indicating the endings of a sūrah. The text of the Qur'an is preceded and followed by a short treatise of six folios on tajwīd (the correct recitation of the Qur'an), a sā‘at-nāmah (for consulting proper hours), and a twelve folio fāl-nāmah (containing rules for taking omens from the...
Dates: 1135 A.H.; 1722 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 151: القرآن al-Qur’ān, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 151
Scope and Contents

A complete copy of the Qur'an. Written in extremely small but clear script.


First two pages richly illuminated in gold and colour.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 152: القرآن al-Qur’ān, 1067 A.H., 1656 C.E.

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 152
Scope and Contents

A complete copy of the Qur'an. In the headings of the sūrahs (chapters), the number of āyāt (verses) occuring in each is provided. On the last folio a prayer is pasted, surrounded by gold lines, and written in the hand of the copyist. There is also on the last page, a line written in Latin, and another in Greek. See catalogue by Hukk et al for further information.

Dates: 1067 A.H.; 1656 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia
Or Ms 153 and Or Ms 172 (bindings)
Or Ms 153 and Or Ms 172 (bindings)

Or Ms 153: القرآن al-Qur’ān, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 153
Scope and Contents This copy of the Qur'an consists of the following surahs (chapters): 1, 6, 36, 44, 48, 55, 56 , 67, 78-114. On the last twenty folios there are more chapters written irrespective of order, and mixed with these are quotations, possibly in Turkish, from Shaykh Muḥyi al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ‘Alī b. Muḥammad al-‘Arabī's (d. 638 A.H., 1240 C.E.) commentary upon the Qur'an. There are also a few prayers and some notes on the stature of the Prophet,...
Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 154: القرآن al-Qur’ān, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 154
Scope and Contents

A collection of a few sūrahs (chapters) of the Qur'an, beginning with sūrah 19, entitled 'al-Maryam', in which case the sūrah title has been written upside down. This manuscript may well pertain to the Morisco community of Islamic Spain or Morocco.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 175: Early Qur'anic Fragments, undated (some possibly 10th-11th cent. C.E.)

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 175
Scope and Contents Thirteen fragments of sections of the Qur'an that between them exhibit the gradual development of kūfī into naskhī script.The following is the historical account attached to them: "They are boldly written in black ink on vellum, the more ancient specimens having five and six lines on each page; the more recent from six to nine lines; red and green marks or spots are scattered throughout the writing, and many of...
Dates: undated (some possibly 10th-11th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 428: الف کلمة طیب Alf kalimah ṭayyib, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 428
Scope and Contents

A fragment of the Lām section of a series of 1,000 notable texts from the Qurʼān.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

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