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Accession number:
MS M.838.7
Call Number:
B2 089 G MS M.838.7
Title:
Qurʼan single leaf.
Created:
10th-11th century
Credit:
Gift of the Estate of Belle da Costa Greene, 1951.
Description:
1 leaf (7 lines) : vellum, ill. ; 130 x 192 mm
Provenance:
Belle da Costa Greene.
Notes:
Ms. single leaf from a Qurʼan, written and decorated 10th to 11th century.
Text: sura 4, al-Nisāʼ (Women), verses 146-150.
Decoration: written in brownish ink with voweling in red dots; small dots of brown ink for diacriticals added after the manuscript was written and illustrated; one small gold hāʼ occurs after verse 146.
Script:
Kufic
Language:
Arabic
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