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Two leaves of an early Quranic manuscript in the Mingana Collection〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Virtual Manuscript Room )〕 of Middle Eastern manuscripts of the University of Birmingham's Cadbury Research Library were discovered in 2015 as being dated between 568 and 645, making it among the oldest Quran manuscripts to date. The manuscript is written in ink on parchment, using a monumental Arabic Hijazi script and is still clearly legible.〔 The leaves preserve parts of Surahs 18 to 20. The university has placed the manuscript on public display at the Bramall Music Building at the university during October 2015,〔 and plans to display it at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2016. == Description == The two leaves have been recognized〔〔 as belonging with the 16 leaves catalogued as BnF Arabe 328(c)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ms. Paris BnF Arabe 328 (c) )〕 in the フランス語:Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, now bound with the Codex Parisino-petropolitanus; and witness verses corresponding to a lacuna in that text. The Birmingham leaves, now catalogued as Mingana 1572a, are folio size (the leaves of BnF Arabe 328(c) are 33.3 cm by 24.5 cm)〔 and are written on both sides in a generously-scaled and legible script.〔 One two-page leaf contains verses 23–31 of Surah 18 (Al-Kahf) while the other leaf the final eight verses 91–98 of Surah 19 (Maryam) and the first 12 verses of Surah 20 (Ta-Ha), all in their present day sequence and conforming very closely to the standard text. The two surviving leaves will have been separated in the original codex by a number of missing folios containing the intervening verses of surahs 18 and 19. There are no diacritical marks to indicate short vowels, but consonants are occasionally differentiated with oblique dashes. The text is laid out in the format that was to become standard for complete Quran manuscripts, with chapter divisions indicated by a decorated line, and verse endings by intertextual clustered dots. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Birmingham Quran manuscript」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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