Accession number:
MS M.844.1
Title:
Qurʾan, single leaf
Created:
9th century.
Credit:
Gift of the Estate of Belle da Costa Greene, 1951.
Description:
1 leaf (5 lines) : ill. ; 228 x 313 mm
Provenance:
Belle da Costa Greene.
Notes:
Ms. single leaf from a Qurʾan, written and decorated in the 9th century.
Text: sura 9, al-Tawba (Repentance), verses 97-98.
Decoration: reddish black ink with some voweling by red dots; no diacriticals; gold rosette at the end of verse 97.
Part of the stub of the conjoint leaf and some of the sewing is preserved.
Script:
Kufic
Language:
Arabic
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