- Alternative Title
- MS Leaf on Vellum from a Qur'an, North Africa
- Subject
- Manuscripts, Medieval and Qurʼan
- Language
- ara
- Date created
- 900s
- Resource Type
- Text
- Identifier
- Shelf Mark: MS Victoria 1992-037-1
- Extent
- 1 leaf ; 22.5 x 16.5 cm
- Geographic Coverage
- North Africa
- Coordinates
- 32.95337, 9.97559
- Additional Physical Characteristics
- Written In Dark Brown Kufic Script, Vowels In Red Dots. Text: Surah 54, vv. 17-32 [from Maggs Bros. export license] Mounted between two pieces of cardboard, using paper hinges. Clear plastic in cut-out of top piece of cardboard allows viewing. Leaf has several holes plus...
- Physical Repository
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Collection
- Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
- Provenance
- Bruce and Dorothy Brown Collection, officially transferred to the University of Victoria on June 27th, 1996. Earlier provenance: Acquired through Maggs Bros. Rare Books, London, April 1992, who gave as the ultimate origin of the fragment ‘North Africa’.
- Provider
- University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
- Genre
- manuscripts (documents) and fragments (object portions)
- Archival Item Identifier
- Accession Number: 1992-037, Item: 1
- Fonds Title
- Bruce and Dorothy Brown collection
- Fonds Identifier
- SC017
- Date Digitized
- 2012-02-23
- Transcript
- Description and Transcription by Sohrab Mosahebi as part of coursework for a manuscript studies class with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin, June 2022 available here: https://www.uvic.ca/library/assets/docs/mosahebi_quran_and_shahnameh.pdf
- Technical Note
- Metadata by KD.