Almohad Qur’ans العربية
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Dated Almohad Qur’ans that do not name their copyist

Corans almohades datés sans nom de copiste · مصاحف موحدية مؤرخة لا يُذكر ناسخها

565–598 AH · 1170–1202 CE

The card on the Almohad Qur’ans page
Two pages of the Qur’an of Ramadan 573 AH
Two pages of the Qur’an of Ramadan 573 AH · Formerly Rabat 12609, folio 94, after Bongianino, thesis 2017, vol. 2, Q13
SurvivesCompleteness unknownNot digitised
Rajab 565 AH
Isle of Bute, Scotland, collection of the Marquess of Bute, ms. 359
Ramadan 573 AH
Kuwait, Tareq Rajab Museum; formerly in the Royal Library in Rabat, no. 12609
Shaʿban 586 AH
Istanbul, Istanbul University Library, A 6752
Safar 591 AH
Uppsala, University Library, O. Vet. 77
Muharram 595 AH
Médéa, Algeria, private collection; Bongianino could not trace it
Safar 595 AH
Timbuktu, library of the Kaʿti family: the second half of a Qur’an copied in Ceuta
Muharram 596 AH
Istanbul, Topkapı Palace, R. 36: copied in Valencia
Dhu l-Qaʿda 598 AH
Istanbul, Topkapı Palace, R. 31
Dhu l-Hijja 598 AH
Rabat, National Library, 934 J: at its end, counts of the verses, letters, words, dots and prostrations of the Qur’an, in Maghribi thuluth reserved on a blue ground

All nine of these Qur’ans are on Bongianino’s list of dated Maghribi Qur’ans, all are from the Almohad period, and most are small square Qur’ans. We have grouped them on one card because none of them names a copyist or an owner.

Dated, but the copyist of none of them is known, and the place of copying of most of them is unknown.

Bongianino 2020, appendix
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Two pages of the Qur’an of Ramadan 573 AH
Two pages of the Qur’an of Ramadan 573 AH · Formerly Rabat 12609, folio 94, after Bongianino, thesis 2017, vol. 2, Q13
Two pages of the Qur’an of Dhu l-Qaʿda 598 AH
Two pages of the Qur’an of Dhu l-Qaʿda 598 AH · Topkapı R. 31, after Bongianino, thesis 2017, vol. 2, Q23
Almohad Qur’ans

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