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TM 175288 / LDAB 175288 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/175288

also known as Sanaa Palimpsest; Sanaa Manuscript; Sana'a Manuscript; Sana'a Palimpsest; DAM 01-27.1

previously also TM 398420 (double)

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Metadata

Date: AD 675 - 725

Provenance: Sanaa - Yemen (ArabiaThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - outside the Imperium RomanumThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found]
Arabia - Saudi Arabia (ArabiaThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - outside the Imperium RomanumThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [written]

Language/script: Arabic, drawing (paleography: Hiyazi)

Material: parchment

Book form: codex (40 fol.)

Content (beta!): literary text, Mohammed: Quran 1.1-7; 2.39-43; 55.55-78; 56.1-20; 67.21-30; 68.43-52; 69.1-50; 74.56; 75.1-26; 77.5-27; 79.25-34; 85.1-5; 89.13-30; 90.1; 99.2-100.8; 110.2-3; 114.3-6

Authors / works: Mohamed, Qur’an: 02.87-105, 191-223; 05.41-54; 011.105-120; 08.1-3; 08.73-09.34; 09.70-90; 09.106-121; 019.1-74; 022.15-39; 012.17-31; 012.111-end; 018.1-18; 016.26-79; 033.51-72; 039.25-040.8; 020.23-020.80; 020.122-133; 021.5-19; 024.13-40; 034.13-33; 034.40-47; 013.1-40; 028.19-24; 028.30-35; 037.15-33; 037.43-68; 037.82.103; 037.118-144; 015.4-74; 015.87-025.8; 025.14-27; 030.38-030.50; 035.39-035.49; 063.1-062.11; 080 end; 083; 089-090.6 (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: literature, religion — Koran (religion: islamic)

Reuse type: palimpsest old, effaced by: TM 398421

Note: with drawings

More info: DCLPDigital Corpus of Literary Papyri => 14624 links in TM, WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM

Publications

Hilali, The Sanaa palimpsest. The transmission of the Qur'an in the first centuries AH p. 97-135 (Hilali, Asma - 2017) [default]

∙Journal of Near Eastern Studies (JNES) 80 (2021), p. 1-30 [palimpsest old] (Cellard, Eléonore - 2021)

∙Der Islam 87 (2010), p. 1-129 (Sadeghi, Behnam / Goudarzi, Mohsen - 2010)

∙Déroche, Le codex Parisino-Petropolitanus (Texts and studies on the Coran 5) p. 124 (Déroche, François - 2009)

Photo: Déroche, Transmission écrite, p. 124; K.E. Small, Qur'ans . Books of divine encounter (2015), p. 17; Déroche, Le Coran, une histoire plurielle, p. 206; JNES 80 (2021), p.12-13

Content studies: F. Déroche, Le Coran, une histoire plurielle (2019), p. 201-226

Other bibliography: Small / Leoni, Qur'ans, books of divine encounter, 2015, p. 16-17

Collections

→ Copenhagen, David Collection 86/2003 [palimpsest old]
+→ Sanaa, National Museum DAM 01-27.1 [palimpsest old]

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