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Or 6636

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Or 6636
Title:
Qur'an
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
134 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_6636 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
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Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1699
Date Range:
1600-1699
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CE
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Or 6636

Qur'an

Contents

A Hebrew translation of the Italian version of Qur'an.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-134v
Title: Ha-Ḳurʼan
Title: הקוראן

The Italian translation of Quran by Ya῾aḳov Leṿi, from which the Hebrew version was prepared, was published in Venice, 1547.

The preliminary sections are omitted, the translation beginning with "Il primo libro dell' Alcorano." The second book begins on folio 31r, and the third on folio 79r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 134 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 130 mm.
Dimensions (written): 165 × 100 mm.
Foliation:

134 folios (+ 1 unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and at the end).

Original Hebrew foliation.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Defective at the end.

Corroding ink.

Damaged by damp.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 27

Written lines: 27

Uniform layout.

Larger initial words.

Catchwords from page to page.

Hand(s)

Square Italian script of the 17th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Quran. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Oriental 6636.'

History

Origin: 17th century ; India?

Provenance and Acquisition

Asiatic Society of Bengal: presented to the British Museum on 06 December 1901: inscribed, folio 134v.

1901-12-06

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_6636 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 1156.

Funding of Cataloguing

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