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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3428

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.238a

Title:

Single leaf from a 10th-century Qur'an

Qurʼan

Place:

North Africa

North Africa TGN

Date:

9--?

tenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment ; 105 x 162 mm

Former Owner(s):

Maggs Bros

Maggs Bros Ltd WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. Leaf.
Title devised by cataloger. Creation date and location from Maggs Brothers catalog 1298, no. 91.
Script: Written in an extended kufic script.
Layout: 10 lines per page.
Decoration: First line of recto in gold; vowels in red dots.
Binding: Housed in a gray four-flap wrapper in an oversized manilla folder.
Origin: Written in North Africa.
Immediate source of acquisition: Maggs Brothers (2001).
Call number: MS pb Med.238a.

Keyword:

Digital images

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, African

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444764

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076q34s/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library