Details

Subject(s)

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

Getty AAT genre

• Parchment [Browse]

Summary note

Fragment of the Qurʾān containing Sūrah 58:18 (in part) - 22 (in part), likely from the 9th or 10th centuries.

Notes

• Ms. leaves.
• Physical description: 7 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 dots. Medallion indicating every tenth āyah on fol. 1b, line 7. Parchment is water-damaged and ragged, and has deteriorated on bottom edge, 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.

OCLC

122767144

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