Thursday, April 7, 2016

Open Access Digitised Manuscript: British Library’s oldest Qur’ān manuscript, Or.2165


http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?index=0&ref=Or_2165

"The British Library’s oldest Qur’ān manuscript, Or.2165, dating from the eighth century, has now been fully digitised and is available on the British Library's Digitised Manuscripts site. Among the most ancient copies of the Qurʼān, it comprises 121 folios containing over two-thirds of the complete text and is one of the largest of known fragments of an early Qurʼān written in the māʼil script."

See also: Alphabetical List of Open Access Islamic Manuscripts Collections

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