[al-Qurʼan].

Name: [al-Qurʼan].
Author: Bruce, George Evans, 1867-1949 former owner.

Title	[al-Qurʼan].
Author	Bruce, George Evans, 1867-1949 former owner.
Publication Date:	c 18th century to 19th century.
Subject	Qurʼan Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic
Type	Book
Language	ara,fas
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	5 x 17 cm
Library:	State Library Vectoria
Record ID	9937472123607636
Date	c 18th century to 19th century.
Notes	• Manuscript., • Very thin non-European paper, no chain lines., • Custodial history: Volume donated on 10 March 1948 by Major George Evans Bruce (1867-1949), husband of author Mary Grant Bruce (1878-1958). George was an Irish soldier who served in the British Army's Norfolk Regiment in India, the North-West Frontier (in modern-day Pakistan), and the Andaman Islands during the late1880s and 1890s. He may have acquired this volume in this period. It includes now-rare British-Indian textile labels presumably inserted by Bruce, from companies including G. Robinson & Co., Alexander Collie, Fast Colours, Ralli Bros, and F. Steiner & Co., all of Manchester. These labels feature text in English, Devanagari and Landa (?) scripts, with occasional verso manuscript inscriptions in Urdu and Sindhi scripts. They were produced in Britain and affixed to textile bales traded in India, primarily Calcutta and Bombay (Kolkata and Mumbai).
Dil notu	In Arabic.

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[al-Qurʼan].

Author Bruce, George Evans, 1867-1949 former owner.

Publication Date c 18th century to 19th century.

Subject Qurʼan Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic

Type Book

Language ara,fas

Digital No

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions 5 x 17 cm

Library State Library Vectoria

Record ID 9937472123607636

Date c 18th century to 19th century.

Notes • Manuscript., • Very thin non-European paper, no chain lines., • Custodial history: Volume donated on 10 March 1948 by Major George Evans Bruce (1867-1949), husband of author Mary Grant Bruce (1878-1958). George was an Irish soldier who served in the British Army's Norfolk Regiment in India, the North-West Frontier (in modern-day Pakistan), and the Andaman Islands during the late1880s and 1890s. He may have acquired this volume in this period. It includes now-rare British-Indian textile labels presumably inserted by Bruce, from companies including G. Robinson & Co., Alexander Collie, Fast Colours, Ralli Bros, and F. Steiner & Co., all of Manchester. These labels feature text in English, Devanagari and Landa (?) scripts, with occasional verso manuscript inscriptions in Urdu and Sindhi scripts. They were produced in Britain and affixed to textile bales traded in India, primarily Calcutta and Bombay (Kolkata and Mumbai).

Dil notu In Arabic.