Codex Marcel 19 – A Qur'ānic Manuscript From 1st Century Of Hijra
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Assalamu ʿalaykum wa rahamatullahi wa barakatuhu:
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Folio 4r |
Folio 14v |
Folios from Codex Marcel 19.
Date
1st century of hijra.
History Of The Manuscript
This manuscript was kept at the ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ mosque, Fusṭāṭ until, at the end of the 18th century, a member of French expedition to Egypt, Jean-Joseph Marcel, acquired a few leaves which, in 1864, became part of the collection of what is now known as National Library of Russia at St. Petersburgh. A few years later another Frenchman, Jean-Louis Asselin de Cherville (d. 1822), a consular agent of France in Cairo from 1806 to 1822, was able to buy a larger number of folios. These were passed to the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, in 1833, and became part of Arabe 328 collection of Qur'an manuscripts. François Déroche was the first person to give a brief description in his handlist of manuscripts at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.[1]
Size & Folios
Parchment manuscript with an approximate size of 29.1 cm x 21.0 cm. There are 20 lines per page.
Total number of folios are 15 =13 (Marcel 19, National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg) + 2 (Arabe 328f, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris). The extant folios contain ~6.8% of the text of the Qur'an.
Script & Ornamentation
Ḥijāzī. Or Ḥijāzī I in Déroche's terminology.
Manuscript on parchment, text in pale brown ink. Diacritics: partial oblique points, original, with some additions to another ink; vocalization absent. The verses are separated by groups of three horizontal rows of two oval shaped dots. A banner separates the sūrahs.
Contents
Below are the published information of folios in this codex.
Codex Marcel 19 Folio Number Qur'anic Surah Image Publication Comments 1r 18:29 – 18:41 – Marcel 19 1v 18:41 – 18:52 – Marcel 19 2r 18:52 – 18:63 – Marcel 19 2v 18:63 – 18:79 – Marcel 19 3r 18:79 – 18:93 – Marcel 19 3v 18:93 – 18:107 – Marcel 19 4r 18:107 – 18:110; 19:1 – 19:12 Déroche, 2014[2] Marcel 19 4v 19:12 – 19:29 – Marcel 19 5r 19:29 – 19:46 – Marcel 19 5v 19:46 – 19:61 – Marcel 19 6r 19:61 – 19:76 – Marcel 19 6v 19:77 – 19:98 – Marcel 19 7r 23:75 – 23:99 – Marcel 19 7v 23:99 – 23:118 – Marcel 19 8r 24:1 – 24:12 – Marcel 19 8v 24:12 – 24:23 – Marcel 19 9r 24:23 – 24:31 – Marcel 19 9v 24:31 – 24:38 – Marcel 19 10r 24:38 – 24:49 – Marcel 19 10v 24:49 – 24:58 – Marcel 19 11r 24:58 – 24:63 – Marcel 19 11v 24:63 – 24:64; 25:1 – 25:9 – Marcel 19 12r 25:9 – 25:24 – Marcel 19 12v 25:24 – 25:42 – Marcel 19 13r 25:42 – 25:59 – Marcel 19 13v 25:59 – 25:77 – Marcel 19 14r 25:77; 26:1 – 26:23 – Arabe 328f 14v 26:23 – 26:51 – Arabe 328f 15r 28:10 – 28:22 – Arabe 328f 15v 28:22 – 28:32 – Arabe 328f
Location
National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg (Russia); Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
References
[1] F. Déroche, Catalogue Des Manuscrits Arabes: Deuxième Partie: Manuscrits Musulmans - Tome I, 1: Les Manuscrits Du Coran: Aux Origines De La Calligraphie Coranique, 1983, Bibliothèque Nationale: Paris, p. 61.
[2] F. Déroche, Qurʾans Of The Umayyads: A First Overview, 2014, Koninklijke Brill nv: Leiden (The Netherlands), p. 42, Figure 9.
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