al-Qurʼān (MS Add.1111)

<p style='text-align: justify;'>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 <a href='http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-01111/4'>Sura al-Fātiḥah (سورة الفاتحة)</a>, inscribed in a gilded frame, and verses 1-228 from <a href='http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-01111/8'>Sura al-Baqarah (سورة البقرة)</a>. Folios <a href='http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-01111/6'>2v</a> and <a href='http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-01111/7'>3r</a> are decorated with a rectangular gilded panel. The script seems to correspond to an Abbasid Style intermediate between <i>D.I</i> and <i>D.IV</i> as described by F. Deroche.</p> 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.