Two leaves from a Qurʼan.

Title	Two leaves from a Qurʼan.
Publication Date:	11th century.
Publication Place	Spain or North Africa, 11th century. -
Subject	Quran Manuscripts
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	2 leaves (10 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 125 x 203 mm
Library:	The Morgan Library & Museum
Library Asset ID	MS M.539
Record ID	77366
Library Location	Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Date	11th century.
Notes	Ms. written and illuminated in Spain or North Africa, in the eleventh century. Text: sura 89, al-Fajr (the Dawn), verse 19, to sura 91, al-Shams (the Sun), verse 11. An unknown number of leaves from this manuscript are in the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul (Türk ve İslâm Eserleri Müzesi); eleven leaves are in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. Decoration: script is written in brown ink; diacriticals in the folm of short black diagonal strokes and voweling by red dots; verses are followed by small gold quatrefoils containing smaller red quatrefolis, both outlined in black; four green dots mark the angles between the lobes; every fifth verse is marked by a gold Arabic hāʼ with the upright stroke in the form of a half-palmette; every tenth verse is followed by a gold disk inscribed with the cumulative verse total in gold on a ground of red hatching; the disk is edged with gold petals with blue centers, blue outlines, and blue dots in the angles between them.
Cilt	Formerly bound in green morocco by Zaehnsdorf, London; rebound in full natural Irish linen by Deborah Evetts in 1981; the earlier binding is preserved separately.
Edinim bilgisi	Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1915.
Provenans	Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) from Professor R. Meyer Riefstahl (1880-1936) in 1915.
Yazı türü	Kufic

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Two leaves from a Qurʼan.

Publication Date 11th century.

Publication Place Spain or North Africa, 11th century. -

Subject Quran Manuscripts

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 2 leaves (10 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 125 x 203 mm

Library The Morgan Library & Museum

Library Asset ID MS M.539

Record ID 77366

Library Location Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Date 11th century.

Notes Ms. written and illuminated in Spain or North Africa, in the eleventh century. Text: sura 89, al-Fajr (the Dawn), verse 19, to sura 91, al-Shams (the Sun), verse 11. An unknown number of leaves from this manuscript are in the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul (Türk ve İslâm Eserleri Müzesi); eleven leaves are in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. Decoration: script is written in brown ink; diacriticals in the folm of short black diagonal strokes and voweling by red dots; verses are followed by small gold quatrefoils containing smaller red quatrefolis, both outlined in black; four green dots mark the angles between the lobes; every fifth verse is marked by a gold Arabic hāʼ with the upright stroke in the form of a half-palmette; every tenth verse is followed by a gold disk inscribed with the cumulative verse total in gold on a ground of red hatching; the disk is edged with gold petals with blue centers, blue outlines, and blue dots in the angles between them.

Cilt Formerly bound in green morocco by Zaehnsdorf, London; rebound in full natural Irish linen by Deborah Evetts in 1981; the earlier binding is preserved separately.

Edinim bilgisi Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1915.

Provenans Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) from Professor R. Meyer Riefstahl (1880-1936) in 1915.

Yazı türü Kufic