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Qur’ān folio from Spain, 13th century, on pink dyed paper with brown maghribi script | Book of Khidr
Qur’ān folio from Spain, 13th century, on pink dyed paper with brown maghribi script, gold diacritics outlined in black, shadda diacritic (ـّ) used in the Arabic script to indicate gemination of a consonant and sukun diacritic (ـْ) used in the Arabic script to mark the absence of a vowel both in blue, hamzah (ء) letter in yellow and green, two gold and black roundel verse markers containing abjad numbers in red and blue, a gold and polychrome medallion with red kufic marking khams, the upper margin with punched inventory inscription (the system used for vocalisation, orthography and pointing). Maghribi script (الخط المغربي) was employed in Al-Andalus (Muslim Andalusia), Maghrib (Morocco), Algeria, and Tunisia. Manuscripts on peach-pink dyed paper are believed to have been produced in Jativa, near Valencia, the site of the earliest documented paper mill in Spain (Fraser and Kwiatkowski, 2006, p.64). A number of folios from this manuscript are in public collections, while others have appeared at auction.
Qur’ān 28:75 Surat Al-Qasas (The Story) / And We will extract from every nation a witness and say, "Produce your proof," and they will know that the truth belongs to Allah, and lost from them is that which they used to invent.
Qur’ān folio from Spain, 13th century, on pink dyed paper with brown maghribi script | Book of Khidr
Qur’ān folio from Spain, 13th century, on pink dyed paper with brown maghribi script, gold diacritics outlined in black, shadda diacritic (ـّ) used in the Arabic script to indicate gemination of a consonant and sukun diacritic (ـْ) used in the Arabic script to mark the absence of a vowel both in blue, hamzah (ء) letter in yellow and green, two gold and black roundel verse markers containing abjad numbers in red and blue, a gold and polychrome medallion with red kufic marking khams, the upper margin with punched inventory inscription (the system used for vocalisation, orthography and pointing). Maghribi script (الخط المغربي) was employed in Al-Andalus (Muslim Andalusia), Maghrib (Morocco), Algeria, and Tunisia. Manuscripts on peach-pink dyed paper are believed to have been produced in Jativa, near Valencia, the site of the earliest documented paper mill in Spain (Fraser and Kwiatkowski, 2006, p.64). A number of folios from this manuscript are in public collections, while others have appeared at auction.
Qur’ān 28:75 Surat Al-Qasas (The Story) / And We will extract from every nation a witness and say, "Produce your proof," and they will know that the truth belongs to Allah, and lost from them is that which they used to invent.