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Subject(s)

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

Summary note

Fragments from a manuscript of the Qurʾān in New Style script, likely from the 11th or 12th century.

Notes

• Ms. leaves.
• Physical description: 22 lines per page; written in New Style (NS.1--see Déroche, F., The Abbasid tradition, no. 90) in black on tan unglazed, laid Arabic paper. The vowel signs are dots in red. The ḍammah is represented by a red dot to the right of the letter, the fatḥah by one over and the kasrah by one below (cf. al-Suyūṭī, Itqān, Cairo, 1925, vol. II, p. 171, 11. 27-8). A double vowel is represented by two dots. The diacritical marks are the ordinary ones. A few marks in green have been added by a later hand. Some staining and some loss of text on 15G(a) due to ragged edges. In fair condition.
• Origin: Likely from the 11th or 12th century (compare with Déroche, F., The Abbasid tradition, no. 90).
• Fragment 15G(c) has a variant reading for XII:12. Instead of أرْسِلْهُ مَعَنَا غَدًا ىَرْتَعْ وَىَلْعَبْ وَإِنّا لَهُ لَحَافِظُونَ which is the ʻUthmānic reading, the fragment reads أرْسِلْهُ مَعَنَا غَدًا نَرْتَعْ ونَلْعَبْ وَإِنَّا لَهُ لَحَافِظُونَ

Binding note

Loose in a brown embossed leather wrapper.

Language note

Arabic.

Contents

• 15G(a): Sūrah II:205 (in part) - 234 (in part); 2 leaves.
• 15G(b): Sūrah III:46 (in part) - 114 (in part); 3 leaves.
• 15G(c): Sūrah XI:107 - XII:77 (in part); 4 leaves.
• 15G(d): Sūrah XXIII:27 (in part) - 66 (in part); 1 leaf.
• 15G(e): Sūrah XLI:1-50 (in part); 2 leaves.

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Source acquisition

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

References

Hitti, P. K. et al. Descriptive catalog, 1144-1148

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

767726727

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