Collection 

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The Collection

Manuscripts and Book Binding

The museum collection of manuscripts and book binding are relatively few as mostly as gifts, donations or purchased. It includes calligraphic and gilded Quran books , illustrated manuscripts and paper fragments with ink drawings excavated at al-Fustat.

The Quran Books represent the Ottoman style in Arabic writing. Most of the Quran bearing the name of the gilding maker and date of copying. The collection includes Mamluk Qurans and Qurans with Persian translation. The prophet Mohammed biography, history, rare literature and poetry .

The registered objects           : 1536

The Curator                : Sa’ad Ibrahim Mohammed

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