Almohad Qur’ans العربية
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The Qur’an of Yusuf b. ʿAbd Allah b. Khaldun

Le Coran de Yusuf b. ʿAbd Allah b. Khaldun (Valence) · مصحف يوسف بن عبد الله بن خلدون

596 AH · 1199–1200 CE

In the reign of al-Nasir

Khalili Collections record and images ↗The card on the Almohad Qur’ans page
Opening page: al-Fatiha and the start of al-Baqara
Opening page: al-Fatiha and the start of al-Baqara · Khalili QUR 318, folio 1v, after Bongianino, thesis 2017, vol. 2, Q22
SurvivesCompletePartial images
Copyist
Yusuf b. ʿAbd Allah b. ʿAbd al-Wahid b. Yusuf b. Khaldun (not the famous historian)
Made for
Ahmad b. Muhammad b. ʿAbd al-Rahman b. Baytash al-Makhzumi
Place
Valencia, then under Almohad rule
Today
London, Khalili Collections, QUR 318
Format
Parchment; 122 folios; 17 × 16 cm; 25 lines

A complete Qur’an in a single volume, in a fine Andalusi script, with one-line sura headings in gilded Kufic. Its colophon fills two pages in gilded Maghribi thuluth and names the copyist and the man for whom the Qur’an was made.

Images on the collection’s website; not fully digitised.

Khalili Collections record and images
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Opening page: al-Fatiha and the start of al-Baqara
Opening page: al-Fatiha and the start of al-Baqara · Khalili QUR 318, folio 1v, after Bongianino, thesis 2017, vol. 2, Q22
The colophon over two pages
The colophon over two pages · Khalili QUR 318, after Bongianino, thesis 2017, vol. 2, Q22
«لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله»
«لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله» · Khalili QUR 318, folio 1r
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