Details

Subject(s)

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

Getty AAT genre

• Parchment [Browse]

Summary note

Fragment of the Qurʾān containing Sūrah 71:27 (in part) - 28, 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. 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." Thirtieth āyah (i.e. 28) indicated by a large medallion in the margin of verso. Some water damage and slight loss of parchment, mainly marginal.
• 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

122764835

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