SurvivesCompleteness unknownNot digitised
- Copyist
- Abu al-ʿAbbas Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Sufyani, the bookbinder of Fez, who wrote it in his own hand
- Place
- Fez
- Today
- Fez, Qarawiyyin Library, no. 3
- Vocalisation
- Vowels in red only, hamza in yellow, waṣla in green, and al-Habti’s pausal marks in the colour of the ink; sura openings in Kufic
Al-Sufyani was one of the great bookbinders of the late Saadian period. Four years after copying this Qur’an he wrote his treatise Sinaʿat tasfir al-kutub wa-hall al-dhahab (The art of bookbinding and the dissolving of gold, 1029 AH), one of the most important works on the craft of the book in Morocco. This Qur’an is thus in the hand of a man who was both copyist and binder. In it al-Sufyani departs from the custom of his time and does not use blue for shadda and sukūn.
Not digitised, and Khabta did not publish the full text of its colophon.
Close-ups of the script (1)Click to enlarge →
