Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett Additional no. 2

Metadata

DS ID:

DS29216

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett Additional no. 2

Title:

al-Qurʾān. Sūrah 6:39-130, 141-165; 7:1-95 / القرآن. سورة 6:39-130، 141-165 ؛ 7:1-95

Qurʼan

Place:

between 8--? and 9--?

Date:

800-999

ninth century (dates CE) AAT

tenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: iii, 18, iii leaves : parchment ; 111 x 176 (75 x 125) mm. bound to 117 x 184 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Physical description: 5 lines per page; written in small early Abbasid script (style D.Va--see Déroche, F., The Abbasid tradition, no. 52) in brown-black ink on parchment. Vocalized with red dots. Āyahs terminate with small gold medallions. Sūrah indicated in gold on fol. 3b. Damp staining across upper edge; text partially effaced on some pages.
Origin: Likely from the 9th or 10th centuries; compare with Déroche, F., The Abbasid tradition, no. 52.
Purchased in Damascus, 1936.

Keyword:

parchment (animal material)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Ninth century

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9930605663506421

Holding Institution:

Princeton University