[Qurʼān leaves]
Contributors: Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1300
Language: ara
Number of pages: 33
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Qurʼan
Work titles: Qurʼan. Selections
Description: 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).
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Layout: 7 long lines with top and bottom line written larger.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Decoration: Gold florets with red and blue dots mark verse endings. Circular marginal medallions in gold, blue and red mark text partitions. Sūrah titles in gold. A piece of paper with the title for al-Furqān in gold has been added to the bottom of the last leaf (f. 33r).

Origin: Item is undated, but perhaps copied in the 14th or 15th century.

Shelfmark: MS Or 327.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2020. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

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Arabic.

Bound in reddish leather over pasteboard with flap. Front cover blind stamped with central medallion composed of seven small florets with radiant lines; blind stamped frame of sets of parallel lines and repeating geometric design along the outside edge. Back cover is badly water damaged. Flap hinge has been reinforced with black textile.

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