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A Saadian Qur’an dated 1044 AH

Un Coran saadien daté de 1044 H (BnF, Arabe 7253) · مصحف سعدي مؤرخ في 1044هـ

1044 AH · 1634–1635 CE

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Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Arabe 7253 (digitised in Gallica)
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An illuminated opening in the Maghribi style that continued from the Almohads to the Alaouites

Khabta published its illuminated opening as evidence of the continuity of the Maghribi decorative style in Qur’ans from the Saadian period into the Alaouite.

Dated, but the sources available to us name neither its copyist nor its owner, nor its place of copying.