Materials for the history of the text of the Qur{mllhring}{macr}an :the old codices. The Kit{macr}ab al-ma{dotb}s{macr}a{dotb}hif of Ibn Ab{macr}i Daw{macr}ud, together with a collection of the variant readings from the codices of Ibn Ma{mllhring}s{macr}ud, Ubai, {mllhring}Al{macr}i, Ibn {mllhring}Abb{macr}as, Anas, Ab{macr}u M{macr}us{macr}a and other early Qur{mllhring}{macr}anic authorities which present a type of text anterior to that of the canonical text of {mllhring}Uthm{macr}an .edited by Arthur Jeffery.