[al-Qurʼān]. - Benjamin Franklin Library Fund. (1950)
Selections from the Qurʼān on a narrow, paper scroll. Lithographed rather than written, though decoration is by hand. The following verses are included: al-Fātiḥah, al-Baqarah (1-34), Āl-ʻImrān (1-31), Ṭā Ḥā (1-47), Yā Sīn (1-24), al-Mulk (1-21), al-Ikhlāṣ, al-Falaq, al-Nās.
Binding: Cover made of a thin piece of brown leather attached to the top leaf, with no way to attach the ends.
Decoration: Simple illuminated rectangular panels composed of red, green, and blue triangles together.
Layout: 3 lines per centimeter for text areas.
Ms. roll.
Origin: Item is not dated, but likely make in the second half of the 20th century.
Script: Informal naskh in black ink, pointed, unvocalized.