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Manuscript/Mixed Materialal-Baydawi's "Anwar al-Tanzil wa Asrar al-Ta'wil" (with frontispiece) A work of popular Qur'anic exegesis (tafsir) composed by the thirteenth-century scholar al-Baydawi. Dimensions of Written Surface: Recto: 11.4 (w) x 18.3 (h) cm. Dimensions of Written Surface: Verso: 11.7 (w) x 19.2 (h) cm. Script: Verso: naskh and riq'ah The center panel contains a variety of polygonal shapes interlacing to form a carpet page with a palette dominated by brown, gold, and blue…- Date: 13??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialQur'anic verses Mamluk era Qur'an, made in Cairo, 14th or 15th centuries. Dimensions of Written Surface: Recto: 16 (w) x 16.5 (h) cm. Dimensions of Written Surface: Verso: 17 (w) x 23 (h) cm. The left margin of the folio includes a decorative anse to mark off the page as the beginning of a surah. It contains a decorative gold leaf and bulb motif on a…- Date: 13??
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Manuscript/Mixed Materialal-Fatihah First chapter of the Qur'an entitled al-Fatihah (The Opening), written cursive Naskh script, typical of illumination Qur'ans frpm Mamluk Egypt during the 14th and 15th centuries. Above the first two ayah markers on the first line of text immediately after the initiatory bismillah appears the word la ("no") in red ink, indicating that the reciter must not stop at the places indicated. Finally, this…- Date: 13??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialIntroduction (Muqadimmah) Dimensions of Written Surface: 21.2 (w) x 15 (h) cm An Arabic calligraphic work with an introduction (muqadimmah) to perhaps even a sermon (khutbah), signed by Muhammad Ja'far, who states has authored this piece (mashaqahu). The work is written in black naskh script and is fully vocalized, an indication that the text may have been read aloud. It is written on brown paper and…- Contributor: Muhammad Ja'far
- Date: 19??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialQur'anic verses Qur'anic verses 1-4 of the second chapter of the Qur'an entitled al-Baqarah (The Cow) written in the Naskh script from Mamluk period in Egypt, 14th-15th cents. Another fragment in the Library of Congress containing the first chapter of the Qur'an entitled al-Fatihah (The Opening) appears to come from the same manuscript (see 1-84-154.22). The fragment's illumination, script, and size all correspond to this fragment's…- Date: 13??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialQur'anic verses Qur'anic verses 1-8 of the 98th chapter enitled al-Bayyinah (The Clear Proof), written in the Naskh and Thuluth scripts from 15th Cent. Mamluk era Egypt. Anyone who has done an atom's weight of good will see it, / And anyone who has done an atom's weight of evil will see it. (99:7-8) Dimensions of Written Surface: Recto: 11.7 (w) x 20.8 (h) cm. Dimensions…- Date: 15??
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