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Three Folios from Juz' 17 of the Qur'an, donated to the Great Umayyad Mosque of Damascus in 911.
These are the last folios from a Qur'an manuscript, that was part seventeen of a thirty-volume set. As the text ended, the artist added a double page of illumination to conclude the volume. The final page records that the full thirty-volume set was donated to the congregational mosque in Damascus in the month Dhu'l-Qa`da in 298H, the equivalent date for July 911.
Codex, ink, colours and gold on parchment, 3 folios, Arabic text in kufic script, illuminated double finispiece (ff. 2v-3r), final verses of Juz' 17 of the Qur'an (sura 22:77-78), waqf notice (f. 3v) of donation in Dhu'l-Qa`da 298H (July 911) to the congregational mosque of Damascus, naming the donor `Abd al-Mun`im ibn Ahmad, Damascus, Syria, 911.
Three Folios from Juz' 17 of the Qur'an
Is 1421
Is_1421
Islamic Collection
Arabic (language)
Approved Category 2017/Manuscript/Codex
Object by Function/Documents by function/Religious text/Qur'an
Approved Place 2018/Africa/Syria/Damascus
Codex
Qur'an
Kufic script
911 (298H)
911
911
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Approved Material 2018/Organic/Animal (material)/Parchment (material)
Approved Material 2018/Materials/Colourant (material)/Pigment (material)
Approved Material 2018/Materials/Coating material/Ink (material)
Approved Material 2018/Inorganic/Metal (material)/Non-ferrous metal/Gold
Parchment (material)
Pigment (material)
Ink (material)
Gold
GOOD
3
218 mm x 326 mm x 16 mm (height x width x depth)
cll
Unknown
Unknown
Damascus
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