Manuscript/Mixed Material Image 1 of Qur'anic verses

Title

• Qur'anic verses

Created / Published

• 12th century

Headings

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

Notes

• -  Qur'anic verse 21 of the 24th chapter of the Qur'an entitled al-Nur (The Light), written in the Kufi (New Syle 1) script typical of Qur'ans of the 12th cent.
• -  Dimensions of Written Surface: 5 (w) x 8.8 (h) cm
• -  O you who believe, / Do not follow Satan's footsteps: / If any will follow his footsteps, / He will only command what is shameful and wrong. (24:21)
• -  Surat al-Nur advocates proper behavior and the right to privacy. It also warns of sex offences, false slander, and the temptation of immorality:
• -  The text is executed in Kufi (New Syle 1), a script most typically found in Qur'ans of the 12th century. These kinds of Qur'ans were produced in the vertical format with five lines of text per page (Déroche 1992: 170-171, no. 88).
• -  The text is written in black ink with diacritical dots in black, some perhaps added at a later date. The vocalization is marked by red dots. Other orthoepics (marks of pronunciation), such as the duplication of a consonant (tashdid) and the silence marks (sukun), are written in green ink. Verse markers consist of yellow "ha'" or virgules slightly above the main text line. On the right side of the verso of this folio appear three verse markers, although only the ayah marker at the end of the last line should be included. The other two verse markers are superfluous.
• -  This calligraphic fragment contains, on the left side, verse 21 of the 24th chapter of the Qur'an entitled al-Nur (The Light). This verse is finished and continued with verse 22 on the fragment's verso (1-93-154.170 V). Finally, verse 22 comes to a close on the right side of this fragment. When folded, this bifolio's recto and verso provide the continuous text of verses 21 and 22 of Surat al-Nur.
• -  Script: Kufi
• -  1-93-154.170

Medium

• 1 volume ; 19 (w) x 13.6 (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.245

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2019714700

Online Format

• pdf
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2019714700

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