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This is the kinds of times you're happy to be on Twitter. @Sub_Ver_Sive asked me if I could say anything about this manuscript. It's pretty unique for a Naskhi Quran, so I definitely have something to say about it! In this thread I'll post some observations.
In Sūrat al-Baqarah Q2:1 it explicitly marks the first verse marker as kūfī. Indeed it is only the Kufan readings that have a verse break after the ʾalif lām mīm.
I've never seen a manuscript that marks regional verse counts as per the reading tradition.
I've never seen a manuscript that marks regional verse counts as per the reading tradition.
Red shaddah at the top if fī-hi hudan marks ʾAbū ʿAmr's reading fīh-hudan
Red kasrah at the bottom seems to mark the pausal pronunciation fī-hi hudē of Ḥamzah and al-Kisāʾī.
Below it there seems to be an abbreviation that illustrates who reads what in those positions.
Red kasrah at the bottom seems to mark the pausal pronunciation fī-hi hudē of Ḥamzah and al-Kisāʾī.
Below it there seems to be an abbreviation that illustrates who reads what in those positions.
For the two yuʾminūna's, red marks yūminūna, with below it a ǧīm, yāʾ and ṯāʾ; presumably abbreviations of readers.
These must stand for ʾAbū ʿAmr, Warš and ʾAbū Ǧaʿfar, probably.
These must stand for ʾAbū ʿAmr, Warš and ʾAbū Ǧaʿfar, probably.
wa-bil-ʾāḫirah, which seems to mark naql al-hamz: bi-lāḫirah, as per Warš' reading. The resolution isn't really high enough to really make out how it is marked.
This is really exciting: humū yūqinūna is marked here, with ṣilat mīm al-jamʿ on the before last word of a verse. This is the reading of Nuṣayr and Qutaybah, two non-canonical transmitters of al-Kisāʾī. Very surprising to see their reading represented in a manuscript this late!
Here the reading of hudan as hudā in pause (waqfan) is explicitly marked. I don't really know how to interpret the note at the bottom.
A count of words, letters and rukūʿ. But what is this baṣrī, ḥijāzī (5), šāmī (4) and Kūfī (9)? Presumably this is supposed to mark the differences in verse count But how exactly? Is this : Hijazi has 28*5* verses, Sham 28*4*? But Kufa doesn't have 28*9* does it? Not sure.
mūsē with marked imālah.
Marking of ʿalayhimu (majority); ʿalayhimi (ʾAbū ʿAmr) and ʿalayhumu (Ḥamzah, al-Kisāʾī, Ḫalaf, Yaʿqūb).
ḥayṯu šiʾtum > ḥayššītum (ʾAbū ʿAmr)
qīla lahum > qüüla la-hum (Ibn ʿĀmir, al-Kisāʾī) / qīllahum (ʾAbū ʿAmr)
Marking of ʿalayhimu (majority); ʿalayhimi (ʾAbū ʿAmr) and ʿalayhumu (Ḥamzah, al-Kisāʾī, Ḫalaf, Yaʿqūb).
ḥayṯu šiʾtum > ḥayššītum (ʾAbū ʿAmr)
qīla lahum > qüüla la-hum (Ibn ʿĀmir, al-Kisāʾī) / qīllahum (ʾAbū ʿAmr)
Especially the reading of Qutaybah/Nuṣayr showing up really strikes me as surprising. I would be very interested to note if there is a colophon in the back (or front) that notes the date and what that date would be. Any insight into this @Sub_Ver_Sive ?
