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- Colophon
- «تمّ الجزء الثامن بحمد الله وعونه... وذلك في شهر جمادى الأولى من سنة ثلاث وثمانين وأربع مائة. رحم الله كاتبه وكاسبه وقارئه، آمين آمين», “The eighth volume was completed with the praise and help of God... in the month of Jumada I of the year 483. May God have mercy on its writer, its buyer and its reader. Amen, amen.”
- Today
- Uppsala, University Library, O. Bj. 48
- Format
- Parchment; 17 × 14.5 cm after trimming; 11 lines; the last of eight volumes
It is written in a fairly large Maghribi mabsūṭ, with many extensions and free-flowing tails, and is one of the oldest dated witnesses for sukūn and shadda drawn in lapis blue instead of red. The colophon’s prayer for its “kāsib”, its buyer, suggests that it was copied for sale rather than for a particular person.
Its date is explicit, but the colophon names no copyist, owner or place. It was written in Jumada I 483 AH, before the Almoravids entered Granada in Rajab of the same year, so we cannot tell whether it was copied in their lands or in the Taifa kingdoms.
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