Fragment of an Abbasid Qur'ān probably written in the third or fourth century A.H. / ninth or tenth century C.E, containing verses from the Sura al-Nisāʾ (سورة النساء). The script seems to correspond to the Abbasid New Style as described by F. Deroche.Layout: 7 lines per pageScript: The script seems to correspond to the Abbasid New Style as described by F. Deroche.
Fragment of an Abbasid Qur'ān probably written in the third or fourth century A.H. / ninth or tenth century C.E, containing verses from the Sura al-Fātiḥah (سورة الفاتحة), inscribed in a gilded frame, and verses 1-228 from Sura al-Baqarah (سورة البقرة). Folios 2v and 3r are decorated with a rectangular gilded panel. The script seems to correspond to an Abbasid Style intermediate between D.I and D.IV as described by F. Deroche.Layout: 7 lines per pageScript: The script seems to correspond to an Abbasid Style intermediate between D.I and D.IV as described by F. Deroche.
Fragment of an Abbasid Qur'ān probably written in the third or fourth century A.H. / ninth or tenth century C.E, containing verses 22-70 from Sura al-Ḥajj (سورة الحج). The script seems to correspond to the Abbasid Style D as described by F. Deroche.Layout: 8 lines per pageScript: The script seems to correspond to the Abbasid Style D as described by F. Deroche.
This beautifully-illuminated work is a medical tract, in five parts, dealing mainly with medicine and pharmacology, but with excurses on astronomy (astrology) and divination. The handwriting is Italian, of the 15th century. Joseph b. Isaac is the first author cited (on f. 2r) and a later note on the fly-leaf attributes the whole work to him. It appears to be a composite work, however, put together from a variety of sources but on the same general subject. A single scribe produced the manuscript, by the name of Solomon (many times throughout the manuscript, when the letters שלמה appear close together at the start of lines, they are marked with rows of dots), although other hands have left annotations in the margin and additions in the text. There are frequent illuminated headings, borders and miniatures (the latter on ff. 2r, 7v, 37v, 104r, 211r, 223r and 234r). Dr Solomon Schiller-Szinessy, in his description of this manuscript, concludes: 'Not forgetting that the MS. has plenty of superstitious reminiscences in it, it is on the whole very valuable & well worth the perusal of a professional man'.Condition: Slightly creased and lightly stained in places; some margins cropped, with loss of headings. Some leaves missing.Layout: 2 columns; 35 lines; ruled.
Fragment of an Abbasid Qur'ān probably written in the third or fourth century A.H. / ninth or tenth century C.E, containing the last three verses of Sura Yūnus (سورة يونس) and the first 44 verses of Sura Hūd( سورة هود). Unidentified script.Layout: 13 lines to the pageScript: Unidentified script
Fragments of an Abbasid Qurʼān probably written in the third century A.H. / ninth century C.E., containing verses from the Sura Ghāfir (سورة غافر). The script seems to correspond to the Abbasid Style B.II as described by F. Deroche.Layout: 15 lines to the page
Kufic fragments from an Abbasid Qurʼān (probably third century A.H. / ninth century C.E.), containing verses from the Suras al-Ḥijr (سورة الحجر) and al-Naḥl (سورة النحل). These fragments were found in al-Haram al-Sharīf at Jerusalem. The script seems to correspond to the Abbasid Style D.IV as described by F. Deroche.Layout: 18 lines to the page
Fragment of an Abbasid Qur'ān probably written in the third or fourth century A.H. / ninth or tenth century C.E, containing verses 50-75 from Sura al-Anfāl (سورة الأنفال)and verses 1-93 from Sura al-Tawba (سورة التوبة). Folios 1, 2 and 6 are wanting. The script seems to correspond to the Abbasid Style D common as described by F. Deroche.Layout: 12 lines per pageScript: The script seems to correspond to the Abbasid Style D common as described by F. Deroche.
Fragment of a Maghribi Qur'ān probably written in the fourth century A.H. / tenth century C.E, containing verses 16-128 from Sura al-Naḥl (سورة النحل), and verses 1-35 from Sura al-Isrāʾ (سورة الاسراء). Written in Early Maghribi script.Layout: 13 lines per pageScript: Written in Early Maghribi script.
Fragment of an Abbasid Qur'ān probably written in the third or fourth century A.H. / ninth or tenth century C.E, containing the last three verses of Sura Luqmān (سورة لقمان), Sura al-Sajdah (سورة السجدة), Sura Al-Aʿzab (سورة الاعزب). The script seems to correspond to a mediocre version of the Abbasid Style B II as described by F. Deroche.Layout: 12 lines per pageScript: The script seems to correspond to a mediocre version of the Abbasid Style B II as described by F. Deroche.
Fragments of an Abbasid Qurʼān probably written in the second or third century A.H. / eighth or ninth century A.D., containing verses from Sura al-Aḥzāb (سورة الأحزاب) and Sura Sabaʾ (سورة سبا). The script seems to correspond to the Abbasid Style B.Ia or B.Ib as described by F. Deroche.
Fragment of an Abbasid Qur'ān probably written in the third or fourth century A.H. / ninth or tenth century C.E, containing verses 61-64 from Sura Ṭaha (سورة طه). The script seems to correspond to the Abbasid Style D Vc as described by F. Deroche. This leaf belongs to the same Qurʾān as the folio with the classmark Add. 1135.Layout: 5 lines per pageScript: The script seems to correspond to the Abbasid Style D Vc as described by F. Deroche.