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A single page from the Qur’an
(صفحة منفردة من المصحف)

Title	A single page from the Qur’an
Title Original	صفحة منفردة من المصحف
Publication Date:	The beginning of the eighth century AD
Publication Place	Probably the Hijaz - Al-Khalili Family Trust - Nasser D. Collection. Al-Khalili Islamic Art
Subject	Cast brass, perforated, inlaid with silver and black compound
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	32.5 × 20.5 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	KFQ 60
Record ID	object;EPM;uk;Mus21;2;ar
Library Location	Al-Khalili Family Trust - Nasser D. Collection. Al-Khalili Islamic Art
Date	The beginning of the eighth century AD
Notes	The text on this page consists of Surah “Hud” (No. 11), middle verses No. 14-24. There are 23-25 lines to this page. Pointing is not used, but sometimes there are distinct movements that define the letters. There are six oval dots that separate the verses, and there are a red alif surrounded by dotted marks every five verses. The red circles separating every ten verses could be a later tradition. The attribution of this page to the Hijaz script has been done by following what the biographer Al-Baghdadi Ibn al-Nadim stated in the Index, in which he lists the first forms of Arabic script. He confirmed that the letters that move upward and downward originate in Mecca and Medina. Some elements, such as inconsistencies in spelling/writing, which are changes in the shapes of letters and even in the number of lines from one page to another, support the theory that the Arabic layout at this stage was far from traditional. Other parts of the same Qur’an are located in the National Library in Paris (ms. Arabe 328a) and the Vatican Library in Rome (ms. Arabe 1605/1).
Sample Text	“A single page from the Qur’an” within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;uk;Mus21;2;ar
Bu sayfanın künyesi	MWNF Working Number: UK1 02
Seçili bibliyografya	Déroche, F.,The Abbasid Tradition, London: The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, volume 1, 1992: cat.1, pp.30, 32.Rogers, J.M.,The Arts of Islam. Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, London: Thames & Hudson, 2010: no.1, pp.30–31.

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A single page from the Qur’an

(صفحة منفردة من المصحف)

Publication Date The beginning of the eighth century AD

Publication Place Probably the Hijaz - Al-Khalili Family Trust - Nasser D. Collection. Al-Khalili Islamic Art

Subject Cast brass, perforated, inlaid with silver and black compound

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 32.5 × 20.5 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID KFQ 60

Record ID object;EPM;uk;Mus21;2;ar

Library Location Al-Khalili Family Trust - Nasser D. Collection. Al-Khalili Islamic Art

Date The beginning of the eighth century AD

Notes The text on this page consists of Surah “Hud” (No. 11), middle verses No. 14-24. There are 23-25 lines to this page. Pointing is not used, but sometimes there are distinct movements that define the letters. There are six oval dots that separate the verses, and there are a red alif surrounded by dotted marks every five verses. The red circles separating every ten verses could be a later tradition. The attribution of this page to the Hijaz script has been done by following what the biographer Al-Baghdadi Ibn al-Nadim stated in the Index, in which he lists the first forms of Arabic script. He confirmed that the letters that move upward and downward originate in Mecca and Medina. Some elements, such as inconsistencies in spelling/writing, which are changes in the shapes of letters and even in the number of lines from one page to another, support the theory that the Arabic layout at this stage was far from traditional. Other parts of the same Qur’an are located in the National Library in Paris (ms. Arabe 328a) and the Vatican Library in Rome (ms. Arabe 1605/1).

Sample Text “A single page from the Qur’an” within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;uk;Mus21;2;ar

Bu sayfanın künyesi MWNF Working Number: UK1 02

Seçili bibliyografya Déroche, F.,The Abbasid Tradition, London: The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, volume 1, 1992: cat.1, pp.30, 32.Rogers, J.M.,The Arts of Islam. Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, London: Thames & Hudson, 2010: no.1, pp.30–31.