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| | St. Louis, Saint Louis University, Pius XII Memorial Library, Special Collections,
VFL MS 024 | | Description: ff. 3 - Highly acidic ink has eaten through paper in some areas. - Gift of Milton and Gail Fischmann, 1962. - Evans, E.S. "Medieval Manuscripts at Saint Louis University," Manuscripta 47/48 (2003/2004), 94. | | Acknowledgments: - We are grateful to Robert Hillenbrand and Carole Hillenbrand for their generous consultation. | | Number of Parts: 1 - Number of Images Available: 6 | | Direct Link: http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/VFLMS024_44 | | Language: Arabic Country: India Century: 17th | | View MARC record (VFL MS 024): https://libcat.slu.edu/record=b1977167~S5 |
| | Part 1: 3 detached leaves | | Description: - Paper - 485 x 320 mm - Written in 8 long lines on a gold-washed ground; main text separated by narrow bands of burnished gold with interlinear commentary in red. Catchwords in lower left margins on verso. | | Country: India | Cardinal point: | | Region: | City: | | Assigned Date: s. XVII-XVIII | Searchable Date Range: 1600 - 1799 | | Dated by scribe: No | Inscribed Date: | | Document: No | Number of Scribes: ; | | Script: Bahari, in black ink; Nasta'liq, in red; marginal annotations in Shikasteh. | | Other Decoration: Sura divisions marked by cartouches in gold on blue grounds with gold foliage, headings in red; verses marked with burnished gold disks; marginal medallions in gold with blue, red, and black penwork; commentary in Persian written in red; ruled lines in black, red, green, and blue form a border around the text block; outer rulings in black, filled in with burnished gold and red; marginal commentary written on the diagonal in black; one prayer added in red on Folio a, recto. | | Notes: Arabic | | Number of Texts: 1 |
| | Text 1: Folios a-c | | Title:
Qur'an
| | Language(s): Arabic | | Notes: MS 024, fol. a, r-v: Sura 9, al Tawba (Repentence), verses 1-6; fol. b, r-v: Sura 54, al-Qamar (The Moon), verses 35-55, and Sura 55, Ar-Rahman (Most Gracious), verses 1-5; fol. c, r-v: Sura 34, Saba (Sheba), verses 49-54 and Sura 35, al-Fatir (The Creator), verses 1-2. | | Status of text: Fragments | |
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