[Qurʼān leaves]
Contributors: Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1700
Place of publication: Morocco or Algeria?]
Language: ara
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Qurʼan
Work titles: Qurʼan. Selections
Description: 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).
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.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2019. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic.

Brown paper wrapper, sewn as pamphlet.

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