The large Qur’ānic leaves from the Mingana-Lewis Palimpsest

Name: The large Qur’ānic leaves from the Mingana-Lewis Palimpsest
Author: Dr Alba Fedeli

İsim	The large Qur’ānic leaves from the Mingana-Lewis Palimpsest
Yazar	Dr Alba Fedeli
Konu	Koran
Tür	Belge
Dil	Arapça
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Evet
Sayfa Sayısı	42
Fiziksel Boyutlar	Leaf height: 20.5 to 25 cm, width: 17.5 to 19 cm.
Kütüphane:	Cambridge Dijital Kütüphanesi
Kayıt Numarası	MS-OR-01287-LARGE
Lokasyon	Cambridge University Library — MS Or.1287
Tarih	Possibly late 7th/early 8th century-0750-12-31-0650-01-01
Notlar	These seven large leaves were the work of a single scribe, who prepared the writing surface by ruling horizontal lines and arranging the text in 24 to 30 lines per page (two/three of them have been cut off). The scribe marked the separation between two consecutive sūras in various ways (see the three surviving examples in fol. 88r, 89v and 90v). The leaves contain fragments of non-continuous sections of the Qur’ānic text and it is possible that when the scribe was writing these leaves, he was copying a larger section of the Qur’ānic text from an exemplar. The seven large Qur’ānic leaves were trimmed and then folded in two to adjust them to the dimensions of the small codex of Christian Arabic homilies, by cutting about 25% of the area from the original leaves. The parchment of these larger leaves was thick and strong, different from the thin and more fragile parchment of the small Qur’ānic leaves.Agnes Smith Lewis, the owner and editor of the text, applied a larger quantity of hydrosulphide of ammonia to the larger strong leaves, a solution commonly used to enhance the under-writing of palimpsests at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century. The destructive effects of this chemical compound must be added to the destructive effects of the palimpsesting process, and result in a large part of the text being illegible. Agnes Smith Lewis was unable to read half of the seven large leaves, i.e. two entire leaves (ff. 87 and 88) and three pages (the verso of ff. 93 and 94 and the recto of f. 92), despite having applied the solution.Our comprehension of this object is extremely limited and uncertain, and at some points it is impossible to read any words or letters in the manuscript image.Interpretation and hypothetical retracement is the work of Dr Alba Fedeli
Alternatif Başlık(lar)	Leaves from three ancient Qurâns possibly pre-‘Othmânic (from the title of the 1914 edition); Cambridge-Birmingham Qur’ānic palimpsest; Mingana palimpsest; Mingana (Qur’ānic) manuscript
İlişkili Ad(lar)	Gibson, Margaret Dunlop, 1843-1920; Mingana, Alphonse, 1881-1937; Tischendorf, Constantin von, 1815-1874; Cadbury, Edward; Scherling, Erik von‏
Bibliyografya	Mingana, Alphonse and Agnes Smith Lewis. Leaves from three ancient Qurâns possibly pre-‘Othmânic with a list of their Variants. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1914 and previous partial edition in Smith Lewis, Agnes. Apocrypha Syriaca. The Protevangelium Jacobi and transitus Mariae, with texts from the Septuagint, the Corân, the Peshiṭta, and from a Syriac hymn in a Syro-Arabic palimpsest of the fifth and other centuries, with an appendix of Palestinian Syriac texts from the Taylor-Schechter Collection. Studia Sinaitica No. XI. London, C.J. Clay and Sons, 1902.A complete and detailed description of the small leaves along with their palaeographical and textual features is provided in Fedeli, Alba 2015: ‘Early Qur’ānic manuscripts, their text, and the Alphonse Mingana papers held in the Department of Special Collections of the University of Birmingham’, PhD thesis, University of Birmingham, Birmingham and the forthcoming book based on this dissertation.Aʻẓamī, Muḥammad Muṣṭafá., The history of the Qur'ānic text: from revelation to compilation : a comparative study with the Old and New Testaments (Leicester: UK Islamic Academy,, 2003).Fedeli, Alba, "Mingana and the manuscript of Mrs. Agnes Smith Lewis, one century later.", Manuscripta Orientalia 11 3 3-7 (2005) Accessed: 2015-11-05 09:50:56.Fedeli, Alba, "The Digitization Project of the Qurānic Palimpsest, MS Cambridge University Library Or. 1287, and the Verification of the Mingana-Lewis Edition: Where is Salām?", Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 2 1 100-117 (2011) http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/187846411x568768 Accessed: 2015-11-05 09:50:56.George, Alain, "Le palimpseste Lewis-Mingana de Cambridge, témoin ancien de l’histoire du Coran.", Comptes-Rendus des Séances de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 1 377-429 (2011).Jeffery, Arthur, Materials for the history of the text of the Qurʾān: the old codices ; the Kitāb al-Maṣāḥif of Ibn Abī Dāwūd together with a collection of the variant readings from the codices of Ibn Maʻsūd ... and other early Qurʾānic authorities which present a type of text anterior to that of the canonical text of ʻUthmān., De Goeje Fund ; no.11 (Leiden: Brill,, 1937) no.11.Mingana, Alphonse, 1881-1937. and Agnes Smith, 1843-1926. Lewis, Leaves from three ancient Qurâns, possibly pre-`Othmânic: with a list of their variants (Cambridge: University Press,, 1914).Mingana, Alphonse, 1881-1937., Catalogue of the Mingana collection of manuscripts: now in the possession of the trustees of the Woodbrooke Settlement, Selly Oak, Birmingham, vol. III, Additional Christian Arabic and Syriac Manuscripts. (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons,, 1939).Nöldeke, Theodor, 1836-1930,, The history of the Qur'ān, ed. Wolfgang, Behn, Texts and studies on the Qurʼān ; 8.Lewis, Agnes Smith, 1843-1926., Apocrypha syriaca: the Protevangelium Jacobi and Transitus Mariae, with texts from the Septuagint, the Corân, the Peshiṭta, and from a Syriac hymm in a Syro-Arabic palimpsest of the fifth and other centuries, Studia sinaitica ; 11 (London: C.J. Clay and Sons,, 1902) 11.
Bağışçı(lar)	Lewis, Agnes Smith, 1843-1926
Format	Leaves
Mizanpaj	Large vertical format, text in 24 to 30 lines per page
Materyal	Parchment and ink (under-writing of the codex rescriptus)
Menşei Yeri	Unknown
Köken (Provenance)	Sinai, bought by Agnes Smith Lewis.
Yazı Tipi	ḥijāzī style
Yüzyıl 1	0600s C.E.
Yüzyıl 2	0700s C.E.
Oluşturma Tarihi (Bağlantı Türü)	keyword search
Tarih Aralığı	[0650-01-01 TO 0750-12-31]
Oluşturma Türü	creation
Yıl (Bitiş)	750
Yıl (Başlangıç)	650
Görüntü Hakları (Görüntüleme)	Zooming image © Cambridge University Library, All rights reserved.
Doküman Yetkilisi	Mingana Lewis Palimpsest
Dil Kodu 1	ara
Dil 1	Arabic
Metadata Hakları	This metadata is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Küçük Resim Yönü	portrait
Filigran Beyanı	Cambridge University Library (CC BY-NC 4.0)

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The large Qur’ānic leaves from the Mingana-Lewis Palimpsest

Yazar Dr Alba Fedeli

Konu Koran

Tür Belge

Dil Arapça

Dijital Evet

Yazma Evet

Sayfa Sayısı 42

Fiziksel Boyutlar Leaf height: 20.5 to 25 cm, width: 17.5 to 19 cm.

Kütüphane Cambridge Dijital Kütüphanesi

Kayıt Numarası MS-OR-01287-LARGE

Lokasyon Cambridge University Library — MS Or.1287

Tarih Possibly late 7th/early 8th century-0750-12-31-0650-01-01

Notlar These seven large leaves were the work of a single scribe, who prepared the writing surface by ruling horizontal lines and arranging the text in 24 to 30 lines per page (two/three of them have been cut off). The scribe marked the separation between two consecutive sūras in various ways (see the three surviving examples in fol. 88r, 89v and 90v). The leaves contain fragments of non-continuous sections of the Qur’ānic text and it is possible that when the scribe was writing these leaves, he was copying a larger section of the Qur’ānic text from an exemplar. The seven large Qur’ānic leaves were trimmed and then folded in two to adjust them to the dimensions of the small codex of Christian Arabic homilies, by cutting about 25% of the area from the original leaves. The parchment of these larger leaves was thick and strong, different from the thin and more fragile parchment of the small Qur’ānic leaves.Agnes Smith Lewis, the owner and editor of the text, applied a larger quantity of hydrosulphide of ammonia to the larger strong leaves, a solution commonly used to enhance the under-writing of palimpsests at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century. The destructive effects of this chemical compound must be added to the destructive effects of the palimpsesting process, and result in a large part of the text being illegible. Agnes Smith Lewis was unable to read half of the seven large leaves, i.e. two entire leaves (ff. 87 and 88) and three pages (the verso of ff. 93 and 94 and the recto of f. 92), despite having applied the solution.Our comprehension of this object is extremely limited and uncertain, and at some points it is impossible to read any words or letters in the manuscript image.Interpretation and hypothetical retracement is the work of Dr Alba Fedeli

Alternatif Başlık(lar) Leaves from three ancient Qurâns possibly pre-‘Othmânic (from the title of the 1914 edition); Cambridge-Birmingham Qur’ānic palimpsest; Mingana palimpsest; Mingana (Qur’ānic) manuscript

İlişkili Ad(lar) Gibson, Margaret Dunlop, 1843-1920; Mingana, Alphonse, 1881-1937; Tischendorf, Constantin von, 1815-1874; Cadbury, Edward; Scherling, Erik von‏

Bibliyografya Mingana, Alphonse and Agnes Smith Lewis. Leaves from three ancient Qurâns possibly pre-‘Othmânic with a list of their Variants. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1914 and previous partial edition in Smith Lewis, Agnes. Apocrypha Syriaca. The Protevangelium Jacobi and transitus Mariae, with texts from the Septuagint, the Corân, the Peshiṭta, and from a Syriac hymn in a Syro-Arabic palimpsest of the fifth and other centuries, with an appendix of Palestinian Syriac texts from the Taylor-Schechter Collection. Studia Sinaitica No. XI. London, C.J. Clay and Sons, 1902.A complete and detailed description of the small leaves along with their palaeographical and textual features is provided in Fedeli, Alba 2015: ‘Early Qur’ānic manuscripts, their text, and the Alphonse Mingana papers held in the Department of Special Collections of the University of Birmingham’, PhD thesis, University of Birmingham, Birmingham and the forthcoming book based on this dissertation.Aʻẓamī, Muḥammad Muṣṭafá., The history of the Qur'ānic text: from revelation to compilation : a comparative study with the Old and New Testaments (Leicester: UK Islamic Academy,, 2003).Fedeli, Alba, "Mingana and the manuscript of Mrs. Agnes Smith Lewis, one century later.", Manuscripta Orientalia 11 3 3-7 (2005) Accessed: 2015-11-05 09:50:56.Fedeli, Alba, "The Digitization Project of the Qurānic Palimpsest, MS Cambridge University Library Or. 1287, and the Verification of the Mingana-Lewis Edition: Where is Salām?", Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 2 1 100-117 (2011) http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/187846411x568768 Accessed: 2015-11-05 09:50:56.George, Alain, "Le palimpseste Lewis-Mingana de Cambridge, témoin ancien de l’histoire du Coran.", Comptes-Rendus des Séances de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres 1 377-429 (2011).Jeffery, Arthur, Materials for the history of the text of the Qurʾān: the old codices ; the Kitāb al-Maṣāḥif of Ibn Abī Dāwūd together with a collection of the variant readings from the codices of Ibn Maʻsūd ... and other early Qurʾānic authorities which present a type of text anterior to that of the canonical text of ʻUthmān., De Goeje Fund ; no.11 (Leiden: Brill,, 1937) no.11.Mingana, Alphonse, 1881-1937. and Agnes Smith, 1843-1926. Lewis, Leaves from three ancient Qurâns, possibly pre-`Othmânic: with a list of their variants (Cambridge: University Press,, 1914).Mingana, Alphonse, 1881-1937., Catalogue of the Mingana collection of manuscripts: now in the possession of the trustees of the Woodbrooke Settlement, Selly Oak, Birmingham, vol. III, Additional Christian Arabic and Syriac Manuscripts. (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons,, 1939).Nöldeke, Theodor, 1836-1930,, The history of the Qur'ān, ed. Wolfgang, Behn, Texts and studies on the Qurʼān ; 8.Lewis, Agnes Smith, 1843-1926., Apocrypha syriaca: the Protevangelium Jacobi and Transitus Mariae, with texts from the Septuagint, the Corân, the Peshiṭta, and from a Syriac hymm in a Syro-Arabic palimpsest of the fifth and other centuries, Studia sinaitica ; 11 (London: C.J. Clay and Sons,, 1902) 11.

Bağışçı(lar) Lewis, Agnes Smith, 1843-1926

Format Leaves

Mizanpaj Large vertical format, text in 24 to 30 lines per page

Materyal Parchment and ink (under-writing of the codex rescriptus)

Menşei Yeri Unknown

Köken (Provenance) Sinai, bought by Agnes Smith Lewis.

Yazı Tipi ḥijāzī style

Yüzyıl 1 0600s C.E.

Yüzyıl 2 0700s C.E.

Oluşturma Tarihi (Bağlantı Türü) keyword search

Tarih Aralığı [0650-01-01 TO 0750-12-31]

Oluşturma Türü creation

Yıl (Bitiş) 750

Yıl (Başlangıç) 650

Doküman Yetkilisi Mingana Lewis Palimpsest

Dil Kodu 1 ara

Dil 1 Arabic

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