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Title

  • Qur'anic verses

Created / Published

  • 9th century

Headings

  • -  Calligraphy, Arabic
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Arabian Peninsula
  • -  Arabic script calligraphy
  • -  Illuminated Islamic manuscripts
  • -  Islamic calligraphy
  • -  Islamic manuscripts
  • -  Kufi
  • -  Qur'anic verses

Notes

  • -  Qur'anic verses 57-59 of the 27th chapter of the Qur'an entitled al-Naml (The Ants), written in Kufi script similar to style D from the 9th century.
  • -  And We rained down on them a shower (of brimstone). / And evil was the shower on those who were admonished, but heeded not. (27:58)
  • -  Dimensions of Written Surface: 14.5 (w) x 9 (h) cm
  • -  Say, praise be to God and peace upon His servants / Whom He has chosen (for His Message). / Who is better? God or the false god they associate with Him? (27:59)
  • -  Surat al-Naml describes the wonders of the spiritual world. The stories of a number of prophets, such as Moses, Solomon, Salih, and Lut (Lot) are offered in order to distinguish true from false worship, and highlight the miracles of God's grace and revelation. In the story of Lot, those who are lustful will suffer God's punishment:
  • -  The text is executed in a Kufi script similar to style D of Qur'ans produced during the 9th century (see inter alia Déroche 1992: cat. nos. 19, 22, and 24). With five lines per page executed in black ink, this fragment follows the horizontal format of early Qur'ans made on parchment. The ink has worn off the verso due to having been executed on the flesh side of the parchment. Red dots indicate vocalization, while diacritics made of diagonal lines in black ink may have been added at a later date. On the second and fourth lines of this fragment appear two verse markers separating verse 57 from verse 58 and verse 58 from verse 59. They consist of small gold circles stippled with tiny gold and blue dots.
  • -  This calligraphic fragment includes verses 57-59 of the 27th chapter of the Qur'an entitled al-Naml (The Ants). The text continues with verses 59-60 on the folio's verso (1-84-154.37b V). Immediately preceding verses (56-57) appear on another fragment from the same Qur'an in the collections of the Library of Congress (1-84-154.37a V). Together, these two folios form the beginning of the 20th part (juz') of the Qur'an, demarcated by a panel of illumination (1-84-154.37a R).
  • -  Script: Kufi
  • -  1-84-154.37b

Medium

  • 1 volume ; 20.7 (w) x 14.3 (h) cm

Repository

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

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019714594

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Persian Manuscript Collection

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