With the month of Ramadan coming to a close Cleveland Public Library would like to remind patrons of the Islamic texts housed within Special Collections’ John G. White “Orientalia” collection. CPL Special Collections maintains a well-rounded collection of Quranic commentary, Hadith, works on Islamic jurisprudence, and Sufi literature.
The Quran pictured here is approximately 200-300 years old and written in the Arabic Naskh script. The first and last pages of this manuscript are fully illuminated and all pages have double ornamental boarders in gold and blue. The dimensions of this Quran are 16 x 10 cm.