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The Basmala as written on the Birmingham muṣḥaf manuscript, the oldest surviving copy of the Qur'an. Rasm: "ٮسم الله الرحمں الرحىم". The Mingana Collection, comprising over 3,000 documents, was collected by Alphonse Mingana over three trips to the Middle East in the 1920s [3] and was funded by Edward Cadbury, a philanthropist and businessman of the Birmingham-based ...
The more recently uncovered Birmingham Quran manuscript holds significance amongst scholarship because of its early dating and potential overlap with the lifetime of Muhammad c. 570 to 632 CE [53] (the proposed radiocarbon dating gives a 95.4% probability that the animal whose skin made the manuscript parchment was killed sometime between ...
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A number of the manuscripts he returned with formed the basis of the Mingana Collection at Woodbrooke College. Mingana added to the collection with manuscripts acquired on two further trips to the Middle East in 1925 and 1929, both financed solely by Edward Cadbury. In 1932 Mingana moved back to Birmingham to focus on cataloguing the collection.
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The Codex Parisino-Petropolitanus (CPP) is one of the oldest extant manuscripts of the Quran, attributed to the 7th century. The largest part of the fragmentary manuscript is held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, as BnF Arabe 328(ab), with 70 folia. Another 46 folia are kept in the National Library of Russia in Saint-Petersburg.
The recent dating was of the parchment of the manuscript but it was common for these to be washed and reused with fresh writing later. The first hook does not make this clear so I suggest an alternative. Andrew D. 10:15, 26 July 2015 (UTC) ALT1... that the parchment of the Birmingham Quran manuscript (pictured) dates from the time of Muhammad?