Accession number
MS M.837
Object title
Thirteen leaves from a Qurʼan (MS M.837).
Created
9th or 10th century
Binding
The modern binding is tan and unlined, with blind-tooled fillets and without flaps or doublures.
Credit line
Gift of the Estate of Belle da Costa Greene, 1951.
Description
13 leaves (9 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 122 x 185 mm
Provenance
Belle da Costa Greene.
Notes
Ms. thirteen leaves from a Qurʼan; copied and decorated in the 9th-10th century.
Texts: sura 3, al-ʻImrān (the family of ʻImrān), verses 1-7 (fol. 1), 13-20 (fol. 2-3), 36-38 (fol. 4), 49-53 (fol. 5), 62-66 (fol. 6), 127-142 (fol. 7-9), 152-154 (fol. 10), 195-199 (fol. 11); sura 4, al-Nisāʼ (Women), verses 41-43 (fol. 12), 54-57 (fol. 13).
Decoration: written in brownish ink with red and a few green dots indicating vocalization; a small gold rosette follows each verse; the letter hāʼ marks the end of every fifth verse, and following every tenth verse is a larger gold disk, with the cumulative verse total inscribed in its center; ornaments divide lorger divisions of the text.
Texts: sura 3, al-ʻImrān (the family of ʻImrān), verses 1-7 (fol. 1), 13-20 (fol. 2-3), 36-38 (fol. 4), 49-53 (fol. 5), 62-66 (fol. 6), 127-142 (fol. 7-9), 152-154 (fol. 10), 195-199 (fol. 11); sura 4, al-Nisāʼ (Women), verses 41-43 (fol. 12), 54-57 (fol. 13).
Decoration: written in brownish ink with red and a few green dots indicating vocalization; a small gold rosette follows each verse; the letter hāʼ marks the end of every fifth verse, and following every tenth verse is a larger gold disk, with the cumulative verse total inscribed in its center; ornaments divide lorger divisions of the text.
Script
Kufic
Language
Arabic
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