Qurʼan -- Manuscripts
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
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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.)
Fragments, 15th(?)-19th centuries
Series
Identifier: Or Ms 687
Scope and Contents
Or Ms 687 consists of 52 fragments or groupings of fragments, mostly manuscripts, with a few printed items.See individual catalogue entries for more details. The titles and descriptions have been transcribed from the original wrappings, although it is important to note that the previous cataloguer did not have specialized knowledge, resulting in many entries being vague or potentially inaccurate. Nevertheless, we have made the choice to share them online to make these documents...
Dates:
15th(?)-19th centuries
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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.)
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
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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
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.)
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.
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
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.
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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