Codex Amrensis 1
Codex Amrensis 1', the first volume of the series 'Documenta Coranica' contains images and Arabic texts of four sets of fragments (seventy-five sheets) of the Qur'an codex, once kept in the 'Amr ibn al-'As Mosque at Al-Fustat, and now in the collections of the National...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Cellard, Éléonore, author of introduction. Cimiotti, Sabrina. |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Arabic |
| Language notes: | Text of facsimile in Arabic; introduction in French, with abstract in English. |
| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] |
| Series: | Documenta Coranica ;
v.1. |
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| Online Access: | Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete. |
| Summary: | Codex Amrensis 1', the first volume of the series 'Documenta Coranica' contains images and Arabic texts of four sets of fragments (seventy-five sheets) of the Qur'an codex, once kept in the 'Amr ibn al-'As Mosque at Al-Fustat, and now in the collections of the National Library of Russia, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, The Museum of Islamic Art, Doha and the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. It includes an extensive introduction, the facsimile of the original, and the full text with annotations.The manuscript, copied during the first half of the 8th century and written in higazi script, contains diacritical signs for about 20% of the letters, without any signs for short vowels. It varies from today?s reference editions of the Qur'an in verse numbering and has a different orthography. Essential reading for students and scholars of the history of the Qur'an and its written transmission.00. Codex Amrensis 1 , the first volume of the series Documenta Coranica contains images and Arabic texts of four sets of fragments (seventy-five sheets) of the Qurʾān codex, once kept in the ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ Mosque at Al-Fusṭāṭ, and now in the collections of the National Library of Russia, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, The Museum of Islamic Art, Doha and the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. It includes an extensive introduction, the facsimile of the original, and the full text with annotations.The manuscript, copied during the first half of the 8th century and written in ḥiǧāzī script, contains diacritical signs for about 20% of the letters, without any signs for short vowels. It varies from today's reference editions of the Qurʾān in verse numbering and has a different orthography. Essential reading for students and scholars of the history of the Qurʾān and its written transmission.<br> <br> <br> <br> Le Codex Amrensis 1 rassemble quatre fragments manuscrits, aujourd'hui dispersés dans les collections de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, de la Bibliothèque nationale de Russie, du Musée d'art islamique à Doha et dans la collection de Nasser D. Khalili. Ces fragments appartiennent à un même manuscrit, le Codex Amrensis 1 , qui était autrefois conservé dans la mosquée de ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ à Fusṭāṭ. Ses caractéristiques physiques et textuelles en font un témoin essentiel pour l'histoire du texte coranique et de sa transmission écrite au cours des deux premiers siècles de l'islam. Le présent volume propose aux lecteurs, étudiants et chercheurs, le fac-similé des folios, des annotations concernant son texte ainsi qu'une introduction à l'étude du manuscrit.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> |
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| Item Description: | "'Codex Amrensis 1', the first volume of the series 'Documenta Coranica', contains images and Arabic texts of four fragments from the Qurʼan codex once kept in the ʻAmr-ibn-al-ʻĀṣ-Mosque in Fusṭāṭ (Old Cairo). The manuscript, copied during the first half of the 8th century and written in ḥiǧāzī script, contains diacritical signs for about 20% or the letters, without any signs for short vowels. It varies from today's reference editions of the Qurʼan in verse numbering and has a different orthography. This volume contains the facsimile of the original (all images are 90% original size), annotations and an introduction to the research involved with this manuscript." -- Abstract. Added title page in Arabic. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789004375499 (online) |