al-Qurʼān: Kufic fragment [IO Loth 3] القرآن الكريم

• al-Qurʼān القرآن الكريم : Kufic fragment
• This manuscript is now 40A 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].

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40 A. Size 4^3/4 in. by 7 in.; foll. 46. Nine lines in a page.

Another Kûfic fragment, containing Sûrah 1, 6 نعمت- 2 , 160 کحبّ; large, long-shaped characters; vowel points red, green, or yellow, in a few cases also blue. Sometimes, as if to indicate various readings, small lines are added on د, in green or red, instead of diacritical points. Verses divided by gold ornaments; every tenth marked by larger ones, which contain the number.

The title of Sû. 2 is on a gold ground.

One leaf is missing between foll. 7 and 8, and two between foll. 32 and 33.

The last leaf, which is half destroyed, belongs to another fragment (in five lines). Both this and the first page have been entirely gilt. In a leather binding, covered with silk. Some one has noted that the MS. was written by ʿAlî (fol. 46).