Manuscript/Mixed Material Qur'anic Verses

Title

• Qur'anic Verses

Created / Published

• 9th-10th centuries

Headings

• -  Calligraphy, Arabic
• -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)
• -  Arabian Peninsula
• -  Iraq
• -  Arabic calligraphy
• -  Arabic script calligraphy
• -  Illuminated Islamic manuscripts
• -  Islamic calligraphy
• -  Islamic manuscripts
• -  Kufi

Notes

• -  Qur'anic verses 74-78 of the 22nd chapter of the Qur'an entitled Surat al-Hajj (The Pilgrimage), written in Kufi script close to the E style, on parchment during the 9th-10th cents.
• -  Dimensions of Written Surface: 13 (w) x 22.3 (h) cm
• -  The text is executed in Kufi script close to the E style typical of horizontal Qur'ans produced on parchment during the 9th-10th centuries (Déroche 1992, 116, cat. no. 62).
• -  The text is executed in Kufi script in black ink at 17 lines per page. Diacritics are executed as red dots, while only one verse marker shaped like a gold flower inscribed in a square appears at the very end of Surat al-Hajj. Immediately after the square ayah marker on the 11th line of text, a gold painted horizontal panel serves to separate Surat al-Hajj from Surat al-Mu'minun. Interestingly, the title of Surat al-Mu'minum is not given; instead, the chapter begins immediately with the bismillah.
• -  This calligraphic fragment includes verses 74-78 of the 22nd chapter of the Qur'an entitled Surat al-Hajj (The Pilgrimage), as well as the first eight verses of the 23rd chapter of the Qur'an entitled Surat al-Mu'minun (The Believers). The folio provides a continuation of immediately preceding verses included on a folio from the same Qur'an in the collections of the Library of Congress (AL-8). Surat al-Hajj advises the community of believers to serve God in order to seek His help and protection, while Surat al-Mu'minun describes faith, prayer, and chastity.
• -  Script: Kufi
• -  AL-9

Medium

• 1 volume ; 19.7 (w) x 30 (h) cm

Repository

• Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/ascs.287

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2019714719

Online Format

• pdf
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2019714719

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