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Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—Princeton—New Jersey [Browse]

Notes

• Fols. 215; 32 x 22 cm.; written surface 24 x 13 cm.; 15 lines to page; on glazed Japanese paper; in naskhi; with full vowel signs; headings in red; with illuminations.
• An incomplete Koran comprising Sūrahs II: 14 (in part) to end.
• A few marginal notes. Verses separated with red circles. This MS was captured in 1904 from the Moro Sultan of Taraca, Mindanao, the Philippines during the campaign of General Leonard Wood against Taraca. MS in good condition; wooden binding. Probably from the XVIIIth-early XIXth century.
• Acquired from Dodd, Mead and Co., New York, 1907.

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