al-Qurʼān: Kufic fragment [IO Loth 2] القرآن الكريم

al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم : Kufic fragment <strong>This manuscript is now 39A in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Otto Loth, </strong><strong><em>A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</em>, (volume 1), here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>. 2. 39 A. Size 4 in. by 6 in.; foll. 52. Three lines in a page. Another Kûfic fragment, containing (foll. 1-34) Sûrah <strong>2</strong>, 254-282, and (foll. 35-51) Sû. <strong>3</strong>, 14-32. Large characters, rather cursive; the لا flourished in a peculiar way. A few red dots for vowels. Verses marked in the same way as in the preceding MS [=Catalogue no. 1], bordered with paper, highly ornamented and gilt. The last leaf-on the back of which are also Kûfic characters, but nearly effected-bears on the <em>recto</em>, within ornaments, the words: کتب حسن بن علی (sic). On some pages the letters have vanished; the margin is slightly injured. Bound in gilt leather.