Qur'an

This material is held atBritish Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 5627
  • Dates of Creation
    • 16th century-17th century
  • Language of Material
    • Armenian
  • Physical Description
    • 1 item 208 ff Paper. 208 folios. 23 x 16.5 cm (written surface 14 x 10 cm). Text is written in bolorgir, with red initials and headers, with stress accents for reading, in 25 lines to a page. Binding is in brown leather with gold border.

Scope and Content

An Armenian manuscript containing:. ff.4r-280v The Qur'an, translated into Classical Armenian, preceded by an incomplete list of the suras. From f.114 on, the scribe has added marginal scholia, written from a Cilician standpoint and frequently critical of Islam.

Access Information

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Other Finding Aids

For more information, see Conybeare, F.C. 1913. A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: The British Museum. pp 350-351.

Bibliography

Conybeare, F.C. 1913. A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the British Museum. London: The British Museum. pp 350-351.