Koran Leaf, 1751

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India, 1751. MS 136

This small leaf comes from a pocket Qu’ran and includes the text from Surah VI – The Cattle. The folio encompasses the end of 6.33 and the entirety of 6.34-37:

(33)but the unjust deny the communications of Allah. (34) And certainly apostles before you were rejected, but they were patient on being rejected and persecuted until Our help came to them; and there is none to change the words of Allah, and certainly there has come to you some information about the messengers. (35) And if their turning away is hard on you, then if you can seek an opening into the earth or a ladder to heaven so that you should bring them a sign and if Allah had pleased He would certainly have gathered them all on guidance, therefore be not ignorant. (36) Only those accept who listen; and the dead. Allah will raise them, then to Him they shall be returned. (37) And they say: Why has not a sign been sent down to him from his Lord? Say: Surely Allah is able to send down a sign but most of them do not know.

Each verse is separated by a gold circle. The surah, or chapter, headings are in white ink on a ground of gold.

Koran Leaf

Bibliography

Shakir, M.H., trans. The Qur’an. New York: Tahrike Tarsile Qur’an, Inc, 1999.

Unknown. Illuminated leaf from a manuscript pocket Qur'an. India, ca. 1751. University of Oregon Special Collections & University Archives, MS 136.