Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft

Collection

Present shelfmark

Arab N. 5

Former shelfmark

Total pages

8 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Hebrew

Incipit

בינהם ואן א לדין אורתוא אלכתאב

Incipit position

fol. 1b

Explicit

]אל[י פרעון ומלאיה פקאל אני ]ר[סול ]רב אלעאלמין[ פלמא

Explicit position

fol. 9b

Preservation state

Released date

Released place

Crimea

Other dates

1350

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

No

Quranic reading

Not applicable

Illustrations

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

E. Rödiger, “Mitteilungen zur Handschriftenkunde; Über ein Koranfragment in Hebräischer Schrift,” ZDMG 14 (1860), 485–489; ZDMG 13 (1859), 341, n. 271. E. Roth, Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Wiesbaden, 1965, 110. M. Steinschneider, Hebräische Bibliographie, Berlin, 1860, vol. 3, 113. A. Paudice “On Three Extant Sources of the Qurʾān Transcribed in Hebrew,” in European Journal ofJewish Studies, 2 (2008), 213–57.

Descriptive card

Fragment of the Qur'an partially damaged written in Oriental Hebrew script containing 85 verses, sura 42:13 to 43:45. Written by two different hands, probably in Crimea by Karaites, the text is vocalised but improperly. This transcription could have been used by a Jewish convert for his personal knowledge or by Jews for polemical purposes against Islam.

Entry author

Naima Afif