القرآن الكريم al-Qurʼān [IO Islamic 1383]

• al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1383 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 19 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

19.

1383. Size 13 in. by 8^1/2 in.; foll. 347. Fifteen lines in a page.

Elegantly written; highly gilt and ornamented. Marks of pauses, sections, etc.

Transcribed by Aḥmad b. Muḥammad, A. H. 1094 [=1683]

Foll. 22 and 23, foll. 286-293, and foll. 312-315 have been misplaced in binding.

In the original cover, with the inscription لاَ یَمَسُّهُ الخ [Do not touch it, etc. see Cat. no. 6]

[Johnson.]