Record the actual verses, commentary, interlinear translation and open folio questions.
Start with verse coverage
Birmingham’s Mingana 1582a preserves identified passages from surahs 18, 19 and 20. It is not a witness for Surah Nuh 71. Likewise, HMML’s EMML 7801 note ends its described text at Hūd 11:13. A flood-study target needs actual verse-bearing folios, rather than a manuscript chosen only because its title says Qur’an.
Keep translation and commentary identifiable
HMML 00649 describes a Persian interlinear translation for a limited verse range. SAV BMH 34118 describes Arabic and Persian glossing in commentary. These are important catalogue clues. They do not establish full English coverage of those manuscripts or make a commentator’s words part of the Arabic scripture.
Compare spelling, verse and explanation in stages
First identify the verse and leaf. Then record the reading or transcription, a named corresponding-verse translation and any manuscript-specific difference. Only after that comparison should a lesson discuss what the difference means. An English scripture translation and a witness-specific critical edition answer different questions.
The assessments below identify the current research boundary. No full transcription, new manuscript translation or whole-corpus completion claim is implied.
Qur’an 20:25–28 · old combined-volume folio 1v, lines 12–14
03 · TRANSCRIPTION
Source-language reading
Q20_Birm1572a.xml: verse 25 begins at the end of line 12 and continues into 13; verse 28 ends in line 14. This is the dataset’s original foliation.
04 · TRANSLATION
Edition and coverage
Fedeli 2015 Arabic XML: Qur’an 20:25–28 at old combined-volume folio 1v lines 12–14. Corresponding English scripture translations are separate; no new diplomatic English translation is claimed.
Collate the photograph, retain correction and supplied-letter markers, and document the relation of the former combined-volume foliation to current image labels.
Surahs 18:17–31, 19:91–98 and 20:1–40. This fragment does not supply Surah Nuh 71.
Image or original access
Public images linked
Other-language evidence
No additional language-level assessment recorded.
Rights
Institution-hosted reading route. No image redistribution or new translation licence recorded for Babylon.
What was reviewed
The Arabic XML and corresponding English scripture readings were inspected. No independent photograph-to-letter audit or new diplomatic English translation was completed. This is a selected passage review, not a whole-witness completion claim.
English status: An English edition or corresponding-verse translation is identified. Exact witness and passage mapping remains open.
On 5r: verse 76 spans lines 2–4, verse 77 lines 4–6, verse 78 lines 6–8 and verse 79 lines 8–9. The 4v record instead contains Qur’an 5:18–27.
04 · TRANSLATION
Edition and coverage
Corpus Coranicum manuscript 281 folio 5r, Arabic transliteration by Salome Beridze; corresponding English scripture readings located separately.
No exact English witness-to-edition link has been entered yet. Inspect the source bibliography and select a named edition.
05 · REMAINING WORK
Match passage
Check images and correction marks, clarify the conflicting catalogue folio count, and retain the difference between the scripture translation and a complete diplomatic translation of this witness.
Selected unit Qur’an 6:76–79 mapped to folio 5r lines 2–9 in Corpus Coranicum. Catalogue numeric count says nine folios while descriptive text says seven surviving folios; discrepancy remains open.
Image or original access
Original access restricted
Other-language evidence
No additional language-level assessment recorded.
Rights
Institution-hosted reading route. No image redistribution or new translation licence recorded for Babylon.
What was reviewed
The public folio data and transliteration were inspected. English scripture readings are separate from manuscript-specific palaeographic interpretation. This is a selected passage review, not a whole-witness completion claim.
English status: An English edition or corresponding-verse translation is identified. Exact witness and passage mapping remains open.
Catalogue metadata is available; a source-language passage transcription was not reviewed here.
04 · TRANSLATION
Edition and coverage
English witness-to-edition coverage has not been assessed.
No exact English witness-to-edition link has been entered yet. Inspect the source bibliography and select a named edition.
05 · REMAINING WORK
Check bibliography and passage
Choose a passage, obtain lawful image access and compare the catalogue bibliography with a named English edition. Keep missing coverage unresolved until checked.
Catalogue metadata is available; a source-language passage transcription was not reviewed here.
04 · TRANSLATION
Edition and coverage
English witness-to-edition coverage has not been assessed.
No exact English witness-to-edition link has been entered yet. Inspect the source bibliography and select a named edition.
05 · REMAINING WORK
Check bibliography and passage
Choose a passage, obtain lawful image access and compare the catalogue bibliography with a named English edition. Keep missing coverage unresolved until checked.
Catalogue metadata is available; a source-language passage transcription was not reviewed here.
04 · TRANSLATION
Edition and coverage
English witness-to-edition coverage has not been assessed.
No exact English witness-to-edition link has been entered yet. Inspect the source bibliography and select a named edition.
05 · REMAINING WORK
Check bibliography and passage
Choose a passage, obtain lawful image access and compare the catalogue bibliography with a named English edition. Keep missing coverage unresolved until checked.
Catalogue metadata is available; a source-language passage transcription was not reviewed here.
04 · TRANSLATION
Edition and coverage
English witness-to-edition coverage has not been assessed.
No exact English witness-to-edition link has been entered yet. Inspect the source bibliography and select a named edition.
05 · REMAINING WORK
Check bibliography and passage
Choose a passage, obtain lawful image access and compare the catalogue bibliography with a named English edition. Keep missing coverage unresolved until checked.
Catalogue metadata is available; a source-language passage transcription was not reviewed here.
04 · TRANSLATION
Edition and coverage
English witness-to-edition coverage has not been assessed.
No exact English witness-to-edition link has been entered yet. Inspect the source bibliography and select a named edition.
05 · REMAINING WORK
Check bibliography and passage
Choose a passage, obtain lawful image access and compare the catalogue bibliography with a named English edition. Keep missing coverage unresolved until checked.
Commentary on the Qurʼan: content location not supplied
03 · TRANSCRIPTION
Source-language reading
Catalogue metadata is available; a source-language passage transcription was not reviewed here.
04 · TRANSLATION
Edition and coverage
English witness-to-edition coverage has not been assessed.
No exact English witness-to-edition link has been entered yet. Inspect the source bibliography and select a named edition.
05 · REMAINING WORK
Check bibliography and passage
Choose a passage, obtain lawful image access and compare the catalogue bibliography with a named English edition. Keep missing coverage unresolved until checked.
Baseline review: 5 November 2026 · Selected Enoch language and image checks updated 9 November 2026 · English is the assessment language. This is a selection of 58 distinct witness/object leads, not a worldwide census or a completed translation audit. Physical losses and other-language evidence are recorded separately.
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