This horizontal-format manuscript on parchment is an illuminated fragment of the Qur'an, containing portions of chapters 4 (Sūrat al-nisāʾ), 6 (Sūrat al-anʿām), 7 (Sūrat al-aʿrāf), and 10 (Sūrat Yūnus). The fragment probably dates to the third century AH / ninth CE. The text is written in an Early Abbasid (Kufic) script in dark brown ink and vocalized with red and green dots. Verse markers in the shape of a stylized letter hā' and rosettes indicate groups of five and ten verses. The text is framed by later red, blue, and gold framing lines and a polychrome and gold floral border. The black blind-tooled leather binding with central lobed, pointed oval and pendants is attributable to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.
Contains chapters 6 (Sūrat al-anʿām), end of verse 97 through verse 145 and verses 152-158 (fols. 3a-9b); 10 (Sūrat Yūnus), verses 81-91 (fol. 10a-b); 6 (Sūrat al-anʿām), verses 145-151 (fol. 11a-b); 7 (Sūrat al-aʿrāf), verses 14-81 (fols. 12a-19b); 10 (Sūrat Yūnus), verses 23-39 (fols. 20a-21b); 4 (Sūrat al-nisāʾ), verses 93-99 (fol. 22a-b); and 10 (Sūrat Yūnus), verses 91-102 (fol. 23a-b)
Written in Early Abbasid (Kufic) script vocalized with red and green dots; no letter-pointing
Verse markers in the shape of a stylized letter hā' and rosettes indicating groups of five and ten verses; later framing lines in red, blue, and gold and a polychrome and gold floral border that probably dates to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
Central Arab lands
3rd century AH / 9th CE
book
Non-original Binding
Probably thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE; black blind-tooled leather (without flap); central lobed, pointed oval and pendants; pastedowns of colored paper
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Central Arab lands
3rd century AH / 9th CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This horizontal-format manuscript on parchment is an illuminated fragment of the Qur'an, containing portions of chapters 4 (Sūrat al-nisāʾ), 6 (Sūrat al-anʿām), 7 (Sūrat al-aʿrāf), and 10 (Sūrat Yūnus). The fragment probably dates to the third century AH / ninth CE. The text is written in an Early Abbasid (Kufic) script in dark brown ink and vocalized with red and green dots. Verse markers in the shape of a stylized letter hā' and rosettes indicate groups of five and ten verses. The text is framed by later red, blue, and gold framing lines and a polychrome and gold floral border. The black blind-tooled leather binding with central lobed, pointed oval and pendants is attributable to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.
Contains chapters 6 (Sūrat al-anʿām), end of verse 97 through verse 145 and verses 152-158 (fols. 3a-9b); 10 (Sūrat Yūnus), verses 81-91 (fol. 10a-b); 6 (Sūrat al-anʿām), verses 145-151 (fol. 11a-b); 7 (Sūrat al-aʿrāf), verses 14-81 (fols. 12a-19b); 10 (Sūrat Yūnus), verses 23-39 (fols. 20a-21b); 4 (Sūrat al-nisāʾ), verses 93-99 (fol. 22a-b); and 10 (Sūrat Yūnus), verses 91-102 (fol. 23a-b)
Written in Early Abbasid (Kufic) script vocalized with red and green dots; no letter-pointing
Verse markers in the shape of a stylized letter hā' and rosettes indicating groups of five and ten verses; later framing lines in red, blue, and gold and a polychrome and gold floral border that probably dates to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Copy editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
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