Watermarks - Islamic manuscripts
Watermarks - Islamic manuscripts
Watermarks - Islamic manuscripts
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Qur’an 8:1-13.<br />
The first line reads:<br />
الله ورسوله ان كنتم مومنين، انما<br />
المومنون الذين<br />
One of the oldest known<br />
Qur’anic <strong>manuscripts</strong>,<br />
possibly datable to the end of<br />
the first century Hijra<br />
(beginning 8th century CE).<br />
The writing material is<br />
parchment, the backward<br />
leaning (ma’il) script is called<br />
Hijazi. It is entirely without<br />
punctuation and without<br />
vowels.<br />
Source: MS Paris, BnF, Arabe 328a, f. 40a