Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Manuscripts [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—12th century [Browse]

Contained in

Minasyan's manuscripts collection, AM 13658.

Restrictions note

Fair condition, stains, worn edges.

Summary note

Bifolium from an Egyptian Kufic Qur'an.

Notes

• Arabic paper.
• Ms. codex.
• Title provided by the cataloger.
• Bifolium with surat al-Aʻrāf, 1a - (64-65/7); 1b - (65-66/7); 2a - (67-68/7); 2b - (69/7); 6 lines; split words between two lines typical for Kufic.
• Written in medium kufi in black ink; vocalization in red ink, top side 2b in pencil, number in the collection - # 14.
• "Some of the manuscripts of this group were not found with the other pieces when they were boxed in December, 1954. The group as it now stands had been together since at least 1949. The missing pieces have presumably been placed in with other mss. They will be pulled out and put with AM 13658 as found. A.C. 1-3-55" -note by a former curator on a paper card inside the box.
• Explicit: ...مِن بَعْدِ قَوْمِ نُوحٍ وَزَادَكُمْ فِي الْخَلْقِ بَسْطَةً
• Incipit: فَأَنجَيْنَاهُ وَالَّذِينَ مَعَهُ فِي الْفُلْكِ وَأَغْرَقْنَا الَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا...

Language note

In Arabic.

Provenance

Previously owned by Krikor Minassian (1874-1944).

Other title(s)

Qurʼan. Sūrat al-Aʻrāf

In

Minassian's manuscripts collection, AM 13658

OCLC

1125344805

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