Arabic Manuscript Of Koran
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Nov 1904
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Lt. Col. Edgar A. Mearns
notes: label: Notes
content: Identified by Annabel Gallop, The British Library [at the time, this was numbered ET16837]: Qur'an, incomplete. In Arabic. Yellowish fibrous paper. Text in black ink, in a large careful hand tending towards muhaqqaq; 16 lines per page; text frames of triple-ruled black lines. On some pages there are decorative concentric circles at the four corners of the text frames. Verse markers are black circles, infilled with red pigment; not found on all pages. 'Ayn in black ink is visible in the margin on one page, but no other marginal inscriptions are noted on the pages photographed. According to an accompanying note by Paul Michael Taylor, this fragment was found inside E232849A-0, a Qur'an from the Philippines, by him on 25 September 1984. This Qur'an fragment is in a quite different hand from all the other Qur'ans from the Philippines in the collections, and may perhaps be slightly earlier in date. It is rather unusual to have an even number of lines per page. References: Gallop, Annabel Teh. "Islamic Manuscripts from the Philippines in U.S. Collections: a preliminary listing, including two printed Qur'ans." Our Own Voice Literary Ezine: Filipinos in the Diaspora (April 2011): n. pag. Web. Retrieved from http://www.oovrag.com/bibliography/bibliography13.shtml . Gallop, Annabel Teh. "Qur'an Manuscripts from Mindanao in U.S. Collections." Our Own Voice Literary Ezine: Filipinos in the Diaspora (April 2011): n. pag. Web. Retrieved from http://www.oovrag.com/essays/essay2011a-1.shtml . Gallop, Annabel Teh (2021): Qur'an manuscripts from Mindanao: collecting histories, art and materiality, South East Asia Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2021.1895674
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Sep 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Philippines
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Moro
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 043557
label: USNM Number
content: E232848-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Koran
physicalDescription: label: Width - Object
content: 15 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 20.95 cm