Details

Subject(s)

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

Getty AAT genre

• Parchment [Browse]

Summary note

Fragment of the Qurʾān containing Sūrah 4:176 (in part) - Sūrah 5:1 (in part), likely from the 9th or 10th centuries.

Notes

• Ms. leaf.
• Physical description: 5 lines per page; written in early Abbasid script (style D.Va--see Déroche, F., The Abbasid tradition, no. 45) in brown-black ink on parchment. Vocalized with red and green dots. Āyahs terminate with gold, red, and blue medallions, with a larger medallion for the end of Sūrat al-Nisāʾ. Sūrah heading for Sūrat al-Māʾidah on recto in gold and red accompanied by large medallion consisting of five smaller medallions set on the sides and center of a square. Parchment is ragged and has crumbled away in some places, but no loss of text.
• Origin: Likely from the 9th or 10th centuries; compare with Déroche, F., The Abbasid tradition, no. 45.

Language note

Arabic.

Source acquisition

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

Other title(s)

Qurʼan. Sūrat al-Māʾidah, 1.

OCLC

122740413

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