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Title

  • Qur'anic Verses

Created / Published

  • 8th century

Headings

  • -  Calligraphy, Arabic
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Arabian Peninsula
  • -  Arabic calligraphy
  • -  Hijazi
  • -  Illuminated Islamic manuscripts
  • -  Islamic calligraphy
  • -  Islamic manuscripts

Notes

  • -  Qur'anic verses 53-54 of the 34th chapter of the Qur'an entitled Surat Saba' (Sheba), written in Hijazi 1 script on parchment during the 8th cent.
  • -  As the text on the recto has been executed on the hair side of the parchment, it is better preserved that the text on the verso, which has worn off substantially due to having been written on the flesh side of the parchment.
  • -  A red dot between verses 9 and 10 on the fragment's verso seems to have been added at a later date to facilitate the separation of ayahs. Furthermore, a reader seems to have found the script and the lack of diacritics difficult to read. For these reasons, the words al-mala'ika (the angels) and rusulan (messengers, in the accusative) have been inscribed in black ink immediately above the text line to which they correspond.
  • -  A verse marker in the shape of a red petalled flower appears at the end of the last two verses of Surat Saba' on the folio's recto. Immediately following the end of this surah appears the bismillah ("In the Name of God") of Surat al-Fatir. The surah's title and number of verses, typically given in a chapter heading, have been omitted in this Qur'an.
  • -  Dimensions of Written Surface: 25.1 (w) x 15.5 (h) cm
  • -  The text is executed in Hijazi 1 script in black ink at fifteen lines per page. This kind of script is typical of Qur'ans in the horizontal format produced during the 8th century (Déroche 1992, pp. 31-32, cat. no. 2).
  • -  This calligraphic fragment includes verses 53-54 of the 34th chapter of the Qur'an entitled Surat Saba' (Sheba), as well as the first ten verses of the 35th chapter of the Qur'an entitled Surat al-Fatir (The Originator). Surat al-Fatir is an early Meccan surah that deals with the mystery of creation and angels.
  • -  Script: Hijazi
  • -  AL-17
  • -  Near East scanned

Medium

  • 1 volume ; 30.3 (w) x 21.6 (h) cm

Repository

  • Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019714727

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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