Marinid Qur’ans العربية
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Volume 7 of a rabʿa endowed by Abu ʿInan

Le volume 7 d’une rabʿa constituée en waqf par Abu ʿInan (BnF) · الجزء السابع من ربعة بوقف أبي عنان

Between 749 and 759 AH · 1348–1358 CE

In the reign of Abu ʿInan

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Opening of Surat Sad
Opening of Surat Sad · Arabe 423, fol. 2v
SurvivesIncompleteFully digitised
Owner
It bears an endowment note attributed to Sultan Abu ʿInan Faris, no longer fully legible
Today
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Arabe 423
Format
Parchment; 197 × 181 mm; nine lines; 114 folios
What survives
Volume 7 of eight (from the opening of Surat Sad to al-Tur 49)

The clearest digitised example of how Marinid Qur’ans were vocalised in colour: vowels in red, shadda and sukūn in blue, hamza as an orange dot and waṣla as a green dot. Every fifth verse is marked by a gilded Kufic hāʾ, with the word «خمس», “five”, in the margin; every tenth by a roundel with the word «عشر», “ten”, in gold on a red ground. At the beginning and end are geometric panels centred on an eight-pointed star.

The Qur’an is undated and names no copyist. It is attributed to the reign of Abu ʿInan only because of its endowment.

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Opening of Surat Sad
Opening of Surat Sad · Arabe 423, fol. 2v
Ghafir 40
Ghafir 40 · Arabe 423, fol. 30v
End of the volume: al-Tur 47–49
End of the volume: al-Tur 47–49 · Arabe 423, fol. 113r · AI-enhanced
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