Idrisid Qur’ans العربية
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A Qur’an fragment in early Abbasid script in the Qarawiyyin Library

Un fragment de Coran en écriture abbasside ancienne (Qarawiyyin 902) · قطعة مصحف بالخط العباسي القديم في خزانة القرويين

Fourth century AH (estimated) · tenth century CE

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A page of the fragment
A page of the fragment · Qarawiyyin Library, Mushaf 902, fol. 6r, after Bongianino 2017, fig. 1 · AI-enhanced
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Fez, Qarawiyyin Library, Mushaf no. 902
Format
12 parchment folios; 25 × 28 cm, horizontal format; 11 lines
Script
“Group D” in François Déroche’s classification of the early Abbasid scripts
Origin
al-Andalus or the Maghrib, according to the catalogue of the exhibition Masahif al-Maghrib (2011)

One of the horizontal-format Qur’an fragments in early Abbasid script. The Qarawiyyin Library holds the most important group of them in Morocco, including near-complete copies that have not yet been studied. Umberto Bongianino published an image of one of its leaves (fol. 6r).

Undated; its copyist and place of copying are not known for certain, and its dating to the fourth century AH is an estimate, so it may be later than the Idrisids.

Bongianino 2017, fig. 1
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A page of the fragment
A page of the fragment · Qarawiyyin Library, Mushaf 902, fol. 6r, after Bongianino 2017, fig. 1 · AI-enhanced
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