On the edge of the criteria

The second half of a Qur’an in the hand of Saʿid b. ʿAli al-Darʿi

La seconde moitié d’un Coran de la main de Saʿid b. ʿAli al-Darʿi (BnF) · النصف الثاني من مصحف بخط سعيد بن علي الدرعي

3 Dhu l-Qaʿda 1069 AH · 23 July 1659 CE

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Copyist
Saʿid b. ʿAli b. Zakariyya b. Masʿud b. ʿUmar, from the Draa, according to the description of the Bibliothèque nationale de France
Today
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)
Format
174 folios: prayers, then the second half of the Qur’an (Maryam – al-Nas), then prayers

Its copyist finished it before sunrise, according to the library’s description, in the year the Saadian state ended with the killing of its last sultan in Marrakesh.

Its date and copyist are explicit, but the place of copying is not stated, and the Draa was then outside Saadian rule.