Details

Subject(s)

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

Getty AAT genre

• Manuscripts, Arabic—9th century [Browse]
• Parchment [Browse]

Summary note

Fragment of a Qurʾān containing Sūrah 6:141 (in part) - 7:95 (in part) (fol. 1a-10b) and Sūrah 6:39 (in part) - 130 (fol. 11a-18b), likely from the 9th or 10th centuries.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Physical description: 5 lines per page; written in small early Abbasid script (style D.Va--see Déroche, F., The Abbasid tradition, no. 52) in brown-black ink on parchment. Vocalized with red dots. Āyahs terminate with small gold medallions. Sūrah indicated in gold on fol. 3b. Damp staining across upper edge; text partially effaced on some pages.
• Origin: Likely from the 9th or 10th centuries; compare with Déroche, F., The Abbasid tradition, no. 52.

Binding note

Rebound in modern binding. Originally housed in full brown leather wrapper with flap, with gold-stamped central mandorla and fillets; wrapper is in poor condition and is shelved separately as Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett Additional no. 2a.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

Purchased in Damascus, 1936.

Source acquisition

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

OCLC

230196954

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