MATERIAL: Paper

TYPE: Book

DIMENSIONS: 32 x 21.5 cm.

COMPONENTS: Paper, black and colored inks, original leather binding with stamped central medallion and corner pieces, 17 lines of black Eastern Sudanese script to the page, sura headings in red, vocalization in black, red and green, margins ruled in red and blue, and a marginal zig-zagging commentary set diagonally in red.

NOTES: A very early and rare copy.

LANGUAGE

Arabic

ITEM ID: 413

Ethiopian Qur’an

Collector's Favorites, Asia/Africa, Religious

China, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Islam

DATE

Year: 1773

Decade: 1770s

Century: 18th (1701-1800)

Notes: August 31, 1773

Copy of a Qur’an from sub-Saharan Africa. It contains an introduction and orthographic index, outlining the principles according to which it has been copied in an effort to facilitate a correct reading of the Qur’an. In this instance, the guidelines were set forth by a 12th century scholar who was an authority on the art of recitation. The owner was a minor ruler or chieftain serving the Ethiopian Emperor.

About the Collection

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