Tuesday, 21 May 2024

India 1831

The first qurʾān prints were made in the Calcutta area ‒ Hugli/Hooghli and Serampore lay a bit north, are part of the metropolitan area.
In 1831 a fine Arabic muṣḥaf was printed, good type, quality paper, and unlike the earlier and most later prints without (Persian/Urdu) translation nor commentary:

after the first pages, the last two:






‒­

No comments:

Post a Comment

Categorization of <i>maṣāḥif</i> ‒ spelling

I look at muṣḥaf -printing (and seldom muṣḥaf -writing before) worldwide. So one of my interests are features to differentiate: reading, t...