Details

Subject(s)

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

Getty AAT genre

• Parchment [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of Qurʾanic fragments on parchment, probably dating to the 8th or 9th cent.

Notes

Ms. leaves.

Contents

• 1. 14G(a): Sūrah 21:15(end)-36(beginning) (recto: 15-26 ; verso: 26-36).
• 1 leaf : parchment ; 320 x 245 (275 x 210) mm. Defective leaf with loss of text at edges. 17 lines to the page ; recto is hair; Hijāzī I script (alif 200 mm.) ; occasional diacritical strokes. 8th cent.?
• 2. 14G(b): Sūrah 23:76(end)-80(beginning) (recto: 76-77 ; verso: 78-80).
• 1 leaf : parchment ; 82 x 220 (60 x 165) mm. Upper portion of a larger page. 5 lines ; recto is flesh ; early Abbasid script, close to style D.II. A few red dots ; rosette in gold with blue and gold dots. 9th cent.?
• 3. 14G(c): Sūrah 36:20(end)-23(beginning) (recto: 20-21 ; verso: 21-23).
• 1 leaf : parchment ; 155 x 255 (85 x 165) mm. 5 lines to the page ; recto is flesh ; early Abbasid script. Red dots, green dots and strokes ; one device consisting of three large gold dots arranged in triangle with stem ; one medallion in gold, green, and red on the margin of the verso, with inscription in gold: "ʻishrūn" (280 mm.). Stained. Similar to The Abbasid Tradition (1992), no. 25. 9th cent.?
• 4. 14G(d): Sūrah 69:35(last word)-37 and 38(last letter)-41(beginning). --1 leaf : parchment ; 160 x 285 (80 x 210) mm. Lower portion of a larger page. 4 lines ; recto is hair ; early Abbasid script. Red dots ; mark for end of each verse; mark for five verses on the margin, consisting of inscription in gold inscribed in a circle in gold, with black and red dots. Support eaten by ink. 9th cent.?
• 5. 14G(e): Sūrah 5:31(end)-78(beginning).
• 4 leaves : parchment ; 125 x 180 (90 x 140) mm. Dense writing surface with 16 lines to the page ; early Abbasid script (yāʾ 6 mm.). The flesh/hair sequence is as follows: FHFHHFHF. Red dots. Stained. 9th cent.?

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Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1139, 1140, 1141, 1142, 1143

OCLC

252916232

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