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Title

  • Qur'anic Verses

Created / Published

  • 9th century

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Qur'anic verses 61-73 of the 10th chapter of the Qur'an entitled Surat Yunus (Jonah), written in Kufi script related to the D.IV style, on parchment during the 9th cent.
  • -  Dimensions of Written Surface: 22 (w) x 15.2 (h) cm
  • -  The fragment seems to have been kept folded in two, as evidenced by the crease in the folio's center. Moreover, an inscription in the top left corner of the fragment's verso reads mutafariqa sishom ("sixth miscellaneous"), suggesting that an art dealer numbered the fragment and organized it according to his collection of "miscellaneous" Qur'anic fragments.
  • -  The text is executed in Kufi script in black ink at sixteen lines per page. The text on the folio's recto is well preserved, as it is executed on the hair side of the parchment. On the other hand, the text on the folio's verso has been lost due to having been written on the flesh side. Diacritics appear as red dots, and there are no verse markers except for a simple red circle located between verses 70 and 71 on the fragment's verso. This ayah marker, however, appears to have been added at a later date.
  • -  The text's Kufi script appears related to the D.IV style typical of horizontal Qur'ans produced on parchment during the 9th century (Déroche 1992, 89, cat. no. 40).
  • -  This calligraphic fragment includes verses 61-73 of the 10th chapter of the Qur'an entitled Surat Yunus (Jonah). This Meccan surah describes in particular the stories of Jonah and Noah.
  • -  Script: Kufi
  • -  AL-13

Medium

  • 1 volume ; 25.5 (w) x 20.2 (h) cm

Repository

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

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019714723

Online Format

  • pdf
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Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Persian Manuscript Collection

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