The Qur'ān القرآن

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 9515
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1200-1299
  • Language of Material
    • Arabic Persian Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • Codex ff. 250 Materials : Paper. Foliation : European, 250 ff. Dimensions: 330 x 235 mm. Ruling: 5 lines per page (of Qurʼānic text). Script : Sulüs; nesih for the Persian and Ottoman Turkish, with the Ottoman Turkish text fully vocalized.

Scope and Content

The Qur'ān, XIX, 4 - XXXV, 12, copied in fine large thuluth, probably in the 13th century, with an interlinear Persian translation in smaller thuluth of the same period, underneath which a Ottoman Turkish translation has been added in red naskh by a later hand.

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Related Material

This manuscript is fully described in Meredith Owens , G. M. 'Notes on an Old Ottoman translation of the Ḳur'ān', Oriens, X:2 (1957), pp. 258-76.