DE The Trade of Cairo’s early Qur’ans The Gotha Research Library holds an important collection of fragments from early Qur’an manuscripts on parchment that were once preserved in the Mosque of ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ (d. 664), governor
DE On 25 July 1718, Gottfried Vockerodt (1665–1727), rector of Gotha’s Gymnasium illustre, welcomed an unusual guest. The man in his mid-twenties, with black hair and a dark complexion, had turned up claiming to be a Greek