The Book of the cow : an early Qur'ānic Codex on papyrus (p. Hamb. Arab. 68) / Mathieu Tillier, Naïm Vanthieghem.

Author
Tillier, Mathieu, 1975- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
  • English
  • Arabic
Published/​Created
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023.
Description
xv,198 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles 30 x 30 cm

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Summary note
"In the eighth century CE, the Christian theologian John Damascene referred to a Book of the Cow among the sacred texts of the Muslims. P. Hamb. Arab. 68 not only represents so far the earliest known Qur'anic manuscript preserved on papyrus, but also bears witness to an independent circulation of the Sūra of The Cow in late seventh- or early eighth-century Egypt. Significant deviations from the commonly accepted text of the Qur'an suggest that this copy was rapidly discarded. The present volume offers a complete edition as well as a thorough philological and historical study of the manuscript"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Language note
In English; text in Arabic.
Other title(s)
Qurʼan. Sūrat al-Baqarah
ISBN
  • 9789004677395 ((hardcover))
  • 9004677399 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2023947820
OCLC
1402019080
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