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[Coranus Arabice : impressus jussu Catharinae II Russorum Imperatr.]

[Coranus Arabice : impressus jussu Catharinae II Russorum Imperatr.]

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[Coranus Arabice : impressus jussu Catharinae II Russorum Imperatr.]

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Full title

[Coranus Arabice : impressus jussu Catharinae II Russorum Imperatr.]

Publisher

[Russia?] : [s.n.], [between 1787 and 1793?]

Uniform title

Qurʼan.

Date

[between 1787 and 1793?]

Call Numbers

RB/LQ0003/K

Record Identifier

74VMjzwzpbAg

MMS ID

991001089279702626

Language

Arabic

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

[477, 3] p. ; 32 cm.

Publication information

Publisher

[Russia?] : [s.n.], [between 1787 and 1793?]

Date Published

[between 1787 and 1793?]

More information

Alternative Titles

Full title

[Coranus Arabice : impressus jussu Catharinae II Russorum Imperatr.]

Authors, Artists and Contributors

Author / Artists

Notes

General note

Edited by the Mollah Usman Ismael with critical and philological notes.

From p. 1-477 numbering is in Arabic characters, and signatures are also in Arabic. Each page has 17 lines to the page with marginal notes. Then follow 3 pages of contents and the last page, which includes an index and a prayer.

Rare Books copy has manuscipt annotations on flyleaf " The Koran published by the Empress Catherine of Russia for the use of her Mohammedan subjects" and that is was "procured in Astrakan? by Robert Ross in 1821"...

Citation / References Note

Graesse.

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

RB/LQ0003/K

Record Identifier

74VMjzwzpbAg

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMjzwzpbAg

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MMS ID

991001089279702626

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