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

al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم : Kufic fragment

This manuscript is now 39A in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), here with further notations and hyperlinks].

2.

39 A. Size 4 in. by 6 in.; foll. 52. Three lines in a page.

Another Kûfic fragment, containing (foll. 1-34) Sûrah 2, 254-282, and (foll. 35-51) Sû. 3, 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 recto, 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.