The 'West African' copy of the Qur'ān

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This copy of the Qur'ān is manuscript number 301 in a collection maintained in the Special Collections of the University of Leeds Library on behalf of the School of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies.
Fuller details are available.

This book has been comprehensively scanned at high resolution, revealing details of the text, paper texture and manufacture, and watermarks. We believe this product will be of interest to papyrologists, arabists, digital archivists and others.

The Leeds project is interested in developing techniques to examine the watermark in such documents, together with other concealed properties of the paper.

We acknowledge the assistance and permission of the Special Collections of the University of Leeds Library , and the permission of the School of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies.

Users of this page should cite it as: The Leeds Arabic texts projects, H Hiary, R D Boyle, K C Ng http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabictexts, dated as the page. Please acknowledge also the University of Leeds Library Special Collections and the School of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies. Bibtex.

For more information: Prof. Roger Boyle.
School of Computing
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
United Kingdom

+44 113 343 5487
+44 113 343 5868 (fax)