[soc.religion.islam] Qur'an histories and codices

paul@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (12/12/90)

While looking through the first 750 entries of the 1,434 listings
about the Qur'an in the California Library system on-line catalog, I
encountered this entry:

634. Jeffery, Arthur.
       Materials for the history of the text of the Qur'an : the old codices :
     the Kitab al-masahif of Ibn Abi Dawud, together with a collection of the
     variant readings from the codices of Ibn Ma'sud, Ubai, 'Ali, Ibn...  New
     York : AMS Press, 1975.
         UCB   Law Lib   BP131 .M37

These look to be codices that occurred very soon after the death of
the Prophet (PBUH). We don't have this in our library. Has anyone any
information about it? Thank you!