36, Leaf from Abbasid Qur\u27an in Kufic Script

One parchment leaf from the Qurʼān, Abbasid dynasty, circa 900-999, Near East or North Africa. Written in single columns of seven lines in Kufic script. Text begins on recto at the end of verse 11 of Sūrat al-Aʻlá with part of wa-yatajannabuhā ; text ends on recto at the beginning of verse 16 with bal tuʼthir- ; text continues on verso with verse 16 at -ūna al-ḥayāta; text ends on verso with the end of the sūrah, followed by the title of Sūrat al-Ghāshīyah written in gold ink. Gift of A. Gordon Hunter. For more information about this artifact, see: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/giftoftheword/3/https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/mss_incunabula/1026/thumbnail.jp