[Qurʼān leaves]
by David Eugene Smith
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Leaves from a copy of the Qurʼān containing the last six words of verse 22 in Fuṣṣilat (41) to the third word of verse 22 in Dukhān (44).
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Edition Notes
Manuscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Layout: 15 long lines.
Script: Written in maghribi with some imitation of kufic in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
Decoration: Rubrications in red: sūrah headings, readings, some vocalization. Other blue and yellow dots also appear throughout.
Origin: Item is undated. Likely copied in North Africa in the 18th or 19th century.
Note written on front wrapper: "Complete copy of the Koran. Manuscript. Written about 1800 A.D. Had been 99 years in the Biskra mosque, since the French occupation."
Shelfmark: MS Or 238.
Digital version available with no restrictions Unrestricted online access
Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2019. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.
Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002. Digital version conforms to: http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
Arabic.
Brown paper wrapper, sewn as pamphlet.
Digitized. 2019 Columbia University Libraries committed to preserve
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Fragment of the Qurʼān including the end of al-Furqān, all of al-Shuʻarāʼ and the beginning of al-Naml (25:63 to 27:58).
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