- ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT EXAMPLES IN CHAPTER 10 SERIAL NUMBERS
- ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT EXAMPLES IN CHAPTER 10 SKIN
The script is old and angular in a private communication from May 30, 2020, Humberto Bongianino suggested "its angularity harks back to the script of 9th-century literary papyri from Egypt and is typical of the purest Qayrawānī tradition (‘ Ifrīqī scripts,’ as Ibn Khaldun called them)." There are almost no margins. The iron-gall ink, now faded to brown, is still quite legible, with twenty-five to thirty-four lines per page.
ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT EXAMPLES IN CHAPTER 10 SERIAL NUMBERS
The staff is in the process of producing a new inventory, and in June of 2022 I was able to see these three fragments again and confirm their serial numbers they are milaff (folder) 35, number 14/94, milaff 49, number 2/915, and milaff 75, number 13/764. Now stored at the NLPCPM in Raqqada, just outside Kairouan. In areas of later damage, by contrast, both parchment and text are missing. That these defects are original to the parchment, and not later damage, is confirmed by the fact that the scribe carefully wrote around them. Small holes may have been caused by the larvae of a parasitic fly that settled on the animal while it was still alive, and the uneven lower right edges trace the line of the animal’s shoulder (see Fig.
ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT EXAMPLES IN CHAPTER 10 SKIN
Every portion of the skin was used in production, and there are imperfections that evoke the animal whose skin this once was. The parchment is heavy, strong, and has endured the test of time, but it is not of high quality. Measurements of the parchment (approximately 28 x 18 cm with some variation) and of the sewing stations confirmed that all three fragments originated from the same quire. With the Shaykh’s help, I eventually found four bifolios in three different boxes, with idiosyncratic Arabic handwriting that suggested a common scribe.
1 In front of me was yet another bifolio on rough parchment with no date, no author and no title, but this time I recognized the script from a different manuscript fragment I had seen. In April of 2000, I sat with Shaykh al-Ṣādiq Mālik al-Gharyānī in the Sīdī ʿAbīd mausoleum in Kairouan, Tunisia, going through boxes of loose parchment folios originally from the Great Mosque of Kairouan (Fig.
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