Title: Two Qur’an Folios (10th Century) | صفحتان من المصحف من قرن العاشر ميلادي
Scribe: Unknown | مجهول
Script: New Style Abbasi (NSIII)/ Eastern Kufic
Date: ~4th Century Hijri (~288H to 391H) / 10th Century CE (~ 901CE to 1000CE)
Size: 13.5 X 10.5 CM
Folios: 2 ff.
Description: 11 Lines/Page | Parchment with little staining | Black ink with Rubrication Dots of the Nuqat al I’raab نقط الاعراب, there are slight strokes/dots for the Nuqat al I’jaam نقط الإعجام in black ink. | A roundel represents the end of 10 verses- it has gold in the middle and smaller green and red dots in the outer circle containing flower petal design. | These folios are in good condition
Fol 1:
Incipit: من قرية اهلكناها أفهم يؤمنون
Explicit: ان كنا فاعلين بل نقذف بالحق على
Fol 2:
Incipit: بِهِ ۖ وَإِنَّ رَبَّكُمُ الرَّحْمَٰنُ فَاتَّبِعُونِي وَأَطِيعُوا أَمْرِي ;
Explicit: مَّنْ أَعْرَضَ عَنْهُ فَإِنَّهُ يَحْمِلُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وِزْرًا
Provenance: From a private collection of a professor in L.A.
Research Notes: The script of this folio is closely matched to the New Style Abbassi (NS.III) as classified by Deroche (1992, p.136). The ظ in ظالمين is very similar to Early Abbassi D.VB., but is found in the NS.III of some Qur’ans (ex. The Palmero Qur’an Quires in the Khalili Collection: QUR261). The vertical format might give some indication that this folio is roughly around the 10th century given comparable folios in various collections (Deroche, 1992, p. 134). The vertical format in this script on parchment appears to be rarer than the horizontal format in this time period. While early Hijazi Qur’an’s of the 7th and 8th centuries were written in vertical formats, the horizontal format gained prominence in the mid-late 8th century until the 11th century. Around the early part of the 10th century, there were examples of the vertical format used on parchments (BnF: arabe.342)
Accession #: Ms.119f