Some Notes on the British Library's 'Oldest Qur'an Manuscript' (Or. 2165)

Journal of Qur'anic Studies

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-71

  Dutton, Yasin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 54149115400     PISSN: 14653591     EISSN: 17551730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/jqs.2004.6.1.43     Document Type: Article

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7. For a possible distinction between these two terms, see, for example, François Déroche, The Abbasid Tradition: Qur'ans of the 8th to the 10th Centuries A.D. (London & Oxford: The Nour Foundation, in association with Azimuth Editions & Oxford University Press, 1992), p. 28.
8. See Dānī, Kitāb al-Muqni' fī rasm masāhif al-amsār, ed. Muhammad Sādiq Qamhāwī (Cairo: Maktabat al-Kulliyyāt al-Azhariyya, n.d.), pp. 106-12
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12. i.e. Ibn Mihrān, al-Mabsūt fī'l-qirā'āt al-'ashr, ed. 'Alī Muhammad al-Dabbā' (2 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, n.d.; originally Damascus, 1927).
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37. Bannā', Ithāf pp. 295.
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42. Illustrated in William Wright (ed.), Facsimiles of Manuscripts and Inscriptions: Oriental Series (London: The Palaeographical Society, 1875-83), Plate LIX
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47. Bannā', Ithāf, p. 334.
48. Referred to in Rieu, Supplement, p. 38.
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52. Bannā', Ithāf pp. 387.
53. see Ihn Mujāhid, Sab'a, pp. 169-70
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55. Ibn Mihrān, Mabsūt, pp. 135-6
56. Ibn al-Jazarī, Nashr, vol. 2, pp. 221-2
57. Bannā', Ithaf p. 147.
58. Ibn Mujāhid, Sab'a, p. 283
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61. Bannā', Ithāf p. 226.
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63. Ibn Ghalbūn, Tadhkira, vol. 2, p. 347
64. Ibn Mihrān, Mabsūt, p. 215
65. Bannā', Ithāf, pp. 231-2.
66. Ibn Mujāhid, Sab'a, p. 298
67. Ibn Ghalbūn, Tadhkira, vol. 2, p. 349
68. Ibn Mihrān, Mabsūt, p. 217
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70. Ibn Mujāhid, Sab'a, p. 325
71. Ibn Ghalbūn, Tadhkira, vol. 2, p. 364
72. Ibn Mihrān, Mabsūt, p. 233
73. Bannā', Ithāf, pp. 248-9.
74. Ibn Mujāhid, Sab'a, pp. 327-8
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78. Ibn Mujāhid, Sab'a, pp. 345-6
79. Ibn Ghalbūn, Tadhkira, vol. 2, p. 379
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82. 'Abd al-Muta'āl Mansūr 'Arafa, Kitāb al-Rayāhīn al-'atira, sharh mukhtasir al-fawā'id al-mu'tabara fī'l-qirā'āt al-shādhdha li'l-arba'a ba'd al-'ashara (Beirut: al-Maktaba al-'Asriyya, 1408/1987), p. 88.
83. Ibn Mihrān, Mabsūt, p. 245.
84. Ibn Mujāhid, Sab'a, p. 350
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86. Ibn Mihrān, Mabsūt, p. 247
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88. Ibn Mujāhid, Sab'a, pp. 261-2
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90. Ibn Mihrān, Mabsūt, p. 247
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94. Ibn Mihrān, Mabsūt, p. 259
95. Bannā', Ithāf p. 274
96. Rayāhln, p. 95.
97. Ibn Mujāhid, Sab'a, p. 372
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101. Ibn Mujāhid, Sab'a, p. 375
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105. Ibn Mujāhid, Sab'a, p. 422
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109. Ibn Mujāhid, Sab'a, p. 307
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111. Ibn Mihrān, Mabsūt, p. 221
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113. Ibn Mujāhid, Sab'a, p. 390
114. Ibn Ghalbūn, Tadhkira, vol. 2, p. 413
115. Ibn Mihrān, Mabsūt, p. 277
116. Bannā', Ithāf p. 289.
117. Dānī, al-Muhkam, pp. 2, 17.
118. For verse-ending variants I have relied on two sources in particular, namely: Anton Spitaler, Die Verszählung des Koran (Munich: Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Abteilung, Jahrgang 1935, Heft 11)
119. Bannā', Ithāf.
120. For the verse-ending variants in Sūrat al-A'rāf, see Spitaler, Verszählung, p. 37
121. Bannā', Ithāf, p. 222.
122. For the verse-ending variants in Sūrat al-Anfāl, see Spitaler, Verszählung, pp. 37-8
123. Bannā', Ithāf, p. 235.
124. For the verse-ending variants in Sūrat al-Tawba, see Spitaler, Verszählung, p. 38
125. Bannā', Ithāf, pp. 239-40.
126. see Spitaler, Verszählung, p. 39
127. Bannā', Ithāf, p. 240.
128. For the verse-ending variants in Sūrat Yūnus, see Spitaler, Verszählung, p. 39
129. Bannā', Ithāf, p. 246.
130. see Dutton, Journal of Qur'anic Studies 3:1, p. 79.
131. See Dutton, Journal of Qur'anic Studies 3:1, p. 79.
132. For the verse-ending variants in Sūrat Hūd, see Spitaler, Verszählung, pp. 39-40
133. Bannā', Ithāf, p. 254.
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135. Bannā', Ithāf p. 269.
136. See Dutton, Journal of Qur'anic Studies 3:1, p. 79.
137. For the verse-ending variants in Sūrat Ibrāhīm, see Spitaler, Verszählung, pp. 41-2
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139. see Dutton, Journal of Qur'anic Studies 3:1, p. 88, n. 49.
140. See Dutton, Journal of Qur'anic Studies 3:1, pp. 80-1.
141. see Spitaler, Verszählung, p. 42
142. Bannā', Ithāf, p. 281.
143. For the verse-ending variants in Sūrat al-Kahf see Spitaler, Verszählung, pp. 42-3
144. Bannā', Ithāf, p. 287.
145. For the verse-ending variants in Sūrat Maryam, see Spitaler, Verszählung, p. 43
146. Bannā', Ithāf, p. 297.
147. For the verse-ending variants in Sūrat Tāhā, see Spitaler, Verszählung, pp. 44-7
148. Bannā', Ithāf p. 301.
149. For these, and other possible sources for the Himsi system and further differences, see Spitaler, Verszählung, pp. 44-5.
150. For the verse-ending variant in Sūrat al-Anbiyā', see Spitaler, Verszählung, p. 47
151. Bannā', Ithāf p. 309.
152. For the verse-ending variants in Sūrat al-Hajj, see Spitaler, Verszählung, pp. 47-8
153. Bannā', Ithāf, p. 312.
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158. Hans-Caspar Graf von Bothmer, 'Masterworks of Islamic Book Art: Koranic Calligraphy and Illumination in the Manuscripts found in the Great Mosque in Sanaa' in Werner Daum (ed.), Yemen: 3000 Years of Art and Civilisation in Arabia Felix (Innsbruck & Frankfurt/Main: Pinguin-Verlag & Umschau-Verlag, 1987[?]), p. 179
159. Hans-Caspar Graf von Bothmer, 'Architekturbilder im Koran: Eine Prachhandschrift der Umayyadenzeit aus dem Yemen', Pantheon 45 (1987), pp. 4-20
160. Hans-Caspar Graf von Bothmer, 'Neue Wege der Koranforschung. III. Die Anfänge der Koranschreibung: Kodikologische und kunsthistorische Beobachtungen an den Koranfragmenten in Sanaa', Universität des Saarlandes Magazin Forschung 1/1999, pp. 40-6.