Codex Amrensis 1

Codex Amrensis 1, the first volume of the series Documenta Coranica contains images and Arabic texts of four sets of fragments (seventy-five sheets) of the Qurʾān codex, once kept in the ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ Mosque at Al-Fusṭāṭ, and now in the collections of the National Library of Russia, the Biblioth que Nationale de France, The Museum of Islamic Art, Doha and the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. It includes an extensive introduction, the facsimile of the original, and the full text with annotations.The manuscript, copied during the first half of the 8th century and written in ḥiǧāzī script, contains diacritical signs for about 20% of the letters, without any signs for short vowels. It varies from today's reference editions of the Qurʾān in verse numbering and has a different orthography. Essential reading for students and scholars of the history of the Qurʾān and its written transmission.

Le Codex Amrensis 1 rassemble quatre fragments manuscrits, aujourd'hui dispers s dans les collections de la Biblioth que nationale de France, de la Biblioth que nationale de Russie, du Mus e d'art islamique Doha et dans la collection de Nasser D. Khalili. Ces fragments appartiennent un m me manuscrit, le Codex Amrensis 1, qui tait autrefois conserv dans la mosqu e de ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ Fusṭāṭ. Ses caract ristiques physiques et textuelles en font un t moin essentiel pour l'histoire du texte coranique et de sa transmission crite au cours des deux premiers si cles de l'islam. Le pr sent volume propose aux lecteurs, tudiants et chercheurs, le fac-simil des folios, des annotations concernant son texte ainsi qu'une introduction l' tude du manuscrit.