M. 1572 – A Qur'ānic Manuscript From 1st Century Of Hijra
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Last Updated: 23rd December 2009
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Folios from M. 1572.
Date
1st century of hijra. This manuscript has been dated to 2nd-3rd century hijra and consistently and wrongly referred to as kufic.[1,2] Recent studies on the ḥijāzī manuscripts from Ṣanʿāʾ have resulted in redating of this manuscript to the last part of 1st century hijra.
Inventory No.
M. 1572
Size & Folios
The codex has 9 folios.
History Of The Manuscript[3]
This manuscript belongs to what is commonly known as the ‘Mingana Collection’. The core Mingana Collection, of manuscripts and manuscript fragments, was built up between 1924-29 through the common interest and energy of Dr. Edward Cadbury and Alphonse Mingana. Edward Cadbury, owner of family's chocolate factory at Bournville, sponsored Alphonse Mingana in three journeys to the Middle East, and subsequently engaged Mingana to catalogue much of the collection. This must represent one of the last such European Orientalist enterprises undertaken to scour the Middle East for manuscripts.
When Mingana worked in Manchester, from 1915-32, cataloguing the Arabic manuscripts of the John Rylands Library, Edward Cadbury sponsored him to undertake three journeys to the Middle East to collect manuscripts. In the spring of 1924 in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, Mingana acquired twenty-two Arabic and some Syriac manuscripts for the John Rylands Library and other Syriac manuscripts for Cadbury. A visit in the autumn of 1925 to Syria, Iraq and South Kurdistan yielded mostly Syriac manuscripts with some Arabic. Another in 1929 to Sinai Peninsula (St. Catherine's monastery) and Upper Egypt produced mostly Arabic manuscripts, with some Coptic and Greek.
It is not clear where the present manuscript, i.e., M. 1572, was acquired. It could have come from Iraq, Syria or Egypt.
Script & Ornamentation
Ḥijāzī.
Manuscript on parchment. The pages have been wrongly folded, so that the text is disordered. The consonants are differentiated by dashes. The muṣḥaf is partly vocalised with red dots by a later(?) hand. Red punctuation dots and zigzag lines with ink dots separating sūrahs (fol. 1r) and barbed red design (fol. 3r). Six or three oval dots usually punctuate the verses. Every tenth verse is marked by a hollow circle surrounded by dots.
Contents
Below are the published information of folios in this codex.
M. 1572 Folio Number Qur'anic Surah Size of the Folio (cm.) Image Publication 1r 19:91 – 20:13 – VMR, University of Birmingham 1v 20:13 – 20:40 – VMR, University of Birmingham 2r 4:153 – 4:163 – VMR, University of Birmingham 2v 4:163 – 4:176 – VMR, University of Birmingham 3r 5:1 – 5:5 – VMR, University of Birmingham 3v 5:5 – 5:12 – VMR, University of Birmingham 4r 5:12 – 5:17 – VMR, University of Birmingham 4v 5:18 – 5:27 – VMR, University of Birmingham 5r 6:74 – 6:90 – VMR, University of Birmingham 5v 6:90 – 6:97 – VMR, University of Birmingham 6r 6:97 – 6:110 – VMR, University of Birmingham 6v 6:110 – 6:122 – VMR, University of Birmingham 7r 18:17 – 18:23 – VMR, University of Birmingham 7v 18:23 – 18:31 – VMR, University of Birmingham 8r 6:122 – 6:132 – VMR, University of Birmingham 8v 6:133 – 6:143 – VMR, University of Birmingham 9v 4:129 – 4:140 – VMR, University of Birmingham 9r 4:141 – 4:152 – VMR, University of Birmingham
Location
University of Birmingham, Birmingham (United Kingdom).
References
[1] H. L. Gottschalk (Ed.), Catalogue Of The Mingana Collection Of Manuscripts: Now In The Possession Of The Trustees Of The Woodbrooke Settlement, Selly Oak, Birmingham And Preserved At The Selly Oak Colleges Library, 1948, Volume IV - Islamic Arabic Manuscripts, The Selly Oaks Colleges Library: Birmingham, p. 2.
[2] L-A. Hunt, The Mingana And Related Collections: A Survey Of Illustrated Arabic, Greek, Eastern Christian, Persian And Turkish Manuscripts In The Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham, The Mingana Collection, The Edward Cadbury Charitable Trust: Birmingham (UK), p. 11.
[3] ibid., pp. 4-5.
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