Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Parchment [Browse]

Summary note

Fragment of the Qurʾān containing Sūrah 48:27 (in part) - 28 (in part) and Sūrah 49:3 (in part) - 5 (in part), likely from the 9th or 10th centuries.

Notes

• Ms. leaves.
• Physical description: 5 lines per page; written in early Abbasid (style D.Va--see Déroche, F., The Abbasid tradition, no. 48) in brown-black ink on parchment. Vocalized with red and green dots. Āyahs terminate with gold, red, and green medallions bearing the word "Allāh." Parchment is ragged and has crumbled away in some places, leading to some loss of text.
• Origin: Likely from the 9th or 10th centuries; compare with Déroche, F., The Abbasid tradition, no. 48.

Language note

Arabic.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Princeton Class of 1897), 1942.

Other title(s)

Qurʼan. Sūrat al-Ḥujurāt, 3-5.

OCLC

230196944

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