Manuscript/Mixed Material Qur'anic Verses
About this Item
Title
- Qur'anic Verses
Created / Published
- 9th century
Headings
- - Calligraphy, Arabic
- - Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)
- - Arabian Peninsula
- - Iraq
- - Arabic calligraphy
- - Arabic script calligraphy
- - Illuminated Islamic manuscripts
- - Islamic calligraphy
- - Islamic manuscripts
- - Kufi
Notes
- - Qur'anic verses 85-88 of the 6th chapter of the Qur'an entitled Surat al-An'am (The Cattle), written in Kufi script is in the D.I. style on parchment during the 9th cent.
- - Dimensions of Written Surface: 23.8 (w) x 14.7 (h) cm
- - The text is executed in Kufi script in black ink at six lines per page, surrounded by a gold painted frame. Verses on the fragment's recto have worn off substantially, as they have been executed on the flesh side of the parchment. On the recto's third line appears a fifth-verse marker separating verse 85 from 86. It is in the shape of a gold upturned virgule. Other verse markers on the recto and verso take the form of a gold painted flower with a central blue dot. Diacritics appear as red dots and marks for vowellesness (sukun) as green dots. Other diacritical marks are shaped as diagonal strokes and may have been inserted at a later date.
- - The text's Kufi script is in the D.I. style typical of horizontal Qur'ans produced on parchment during the 9th century (Déroche 1992, p. 69, cat. no. 21).
- - This calligraphic fragment includes verses 85-88 of the 6th chapter of the Qur'an entitled Surat al-An'am (The Cattle). This late Meccan surah describes the nature of God and how He reveals Himself. Verses 85-88 in particular describe a number of prophets such as Jesus, Elias, and Jonah as capable of guiding believers to the "straight path" (al-sirat al-mustaqim).
- - Script: Kufi
- - AL-10
Medium
- 1 volume ; 27.5 (w) x 17 (h) cm
Repository
- Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2019714720
Online Format
- image