The Digital Walters

W.553, Koran

Abstract

This horizontal-format manuscript on parchment is an illuminated fragment of the Qur'an, containing portions of chapters 4 (Sūrat al-nisāʾ), 6 (Sūrat al-anʿām), 7 (Sūrat al-aʿrāf), and 10 (Sūrat Yūnus). The fragment probably dates to the third century AH / ninth CE. The text is written in an Early Abbasid (Kufic) script in dark brown ink and vocalized with red and green dots. Verse markers in the shape of a stylized letter hā' and rosettes indicate groups of five and ten verses. The text is framed by later red, blue, and gold framing lines and a polychrome and gold floral border. The black blind-tooled leather binding with central lobed, pointed oval and pendants is attributable to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.

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Persistent URLs (PURLs)

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Upper board inside
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Front flyleaf ia
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Front flyleaf iib
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Folio 3a with stubs for 1 and 2 present
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fol. 3b
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fol. 4a
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fol. 4b
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fol. 5a
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fol. 5b
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fol. 6a
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fol. 6b
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fol. 7a
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fol. 7b
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fol. 8a
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Folio 8b with unlabeled stub present
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fol. 9a
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fol. 9b
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fol. 10a
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fol. 10b
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fol. 11a
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fol. 11b
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fol. 12a
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fol. 12b
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fol. 13a
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fol. 13b
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Folio 14a with unlabeled stub present
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fol. 14b
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Folio 15a with unlabeled stub present
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fol. 15b
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fol. 16a
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fol. 16b
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fol. 17a
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Folio 17b with unlabeled stub present
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fol. 18a
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Folio 18b with unlabeled stub present
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fol. 19a
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fol. 19b
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fol. 20a
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fol. 20b
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fol. 21a
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fol. 21b
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fol. 22a
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Folio 22b with unlabeled pasted down stub present
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fol. 23a
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fol. 23b
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Back flyleaf ia
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Back flyleaf ib
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Back flyleaf iia
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Back flyleaf iib
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Lower board inside
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Lower board outside
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Spine
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Fore-edge
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Head
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Tail
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