<i>The Abbasid Tradition: Qur'ans of the 8th to the 10th Centuries A.D., The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, vol. 1</i>. François Déroche

Soucek, Priscilla P.

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“…The calibrated age of the parchment is between 706 and 882 CE. One of the intervals, the time period 772–882 CE seems to match with the relative chronology based on its script style, kūfī type D, in the paleographical classification of Déroche (1983; 1992). This is one of the few known extant leaves of a codex (the whole or part of the Qurʾān) in this script style that has been radiocarbon dated.…”

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“…Folio #10950, a parchment leaf of an ancient kūfī Qurʾān (dimensions 14.5 × 20 cm, text area 9 × 14.5 cm, covering Q 40:25–26), has been exposed to humidity and part of its margin is destroyed (Hakim 2010:536; see Figure 1). A sister fragment of this leaf is kept in the Khalili Collection, London, whose writing style has been identified by Déroche (1992:70) as D.1 according to his paleographical classification of early Qurʾānic scripts (see also Déroche 1983, 2014).…”

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Radiocarbon Dating of Manuscripts Kept in the Central Library of the University of Tehran

Aghaei

Bahrololoumi²,

Hajdas³

et al. 2023

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This article discusses radiocarbon dating results of documents preserved at the Central Library of the University of Tehran (hereafter, CLUT) as part of the project “Irankoran.” The paper adds new evidence to an ongoing campaign of dating Qurʾāns and Oriental manuscripts by the Corpus Coranicum Project. The dated manuscripts include one kūfī fragment of the Qurʾān on parchment (no. 10950) and a selection of Islamic and Persian manuscripts, all from the second millennium: the Arabic dictionary Muǧmal al-Luġah (Meškāt no. 203), the medical encyclopedia Ḏaḫīrah-ye Kh w ārazmšāhī (no. 5156), the epic Panǧ Ganǧ of Neẓāmī (no. 5179), the book of wisdom Ādāb al-Falāsifah (no. 2165) attributed to Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq (d. 873 CE), and one of the oldest extant manuscripts of the Avesta Wīdēwdād (no. 11263). Although the authenticity of their colophons is disputed, radiocarbon dating supports the dates of the colophons; even in cases where they were suspected of being tampered with, they most likely present the accurate original dates of the corresponding manuscripts. Only in the case of Ādāb al-Falāsifah (no. 2165), radiocarbon dating of the parchment has identified the manuscript as non-authentic. Inconsistent carbon dating results of two samples taken from Ḏaḫīrah-ye Khwārazmšāhī (no. 5156) and Panǧ Ganǧ (no. 5179) provide evidence of later replaced/added leaves.

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confidence: 99%