QurʾansoftheUmayyads Leiden Studies in Islam and Society Editors LéonBuskens(LeidenUniversity) PetraM.Sijpesteijn(LeidenUniversity) EditorialBoard MauritsBerger,LeidenUniversity–R.MichaelFeener,National UniversityofSingapore–NicoKaptein,LeidenUniversity JanMichielOtto,LeidenUniversity–DavidS.Powers,CornellUniversity volume 1 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/lsis Qurʾans of the Umayyads AFirstOverview By FrançoisDéroche LEIDEN|BOSTON Thispublicationhasbeentypesetinthemultilingual“Brill”typeface.Withover5,100characterscovering Latin,ipa,Greek,andCyrillic,thistypefaceisespeciallysuitableforuseinthehumanities.Formore information,pleaseseewww.brill.com/brill-typeface. issn2210-8920 isbn9789004255654(paperback) isbn9789004261853(e-book) Copyright2014byKoninklijkeBrillnv,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillnvincorporatestheimprintsBrill,GlobalOriental,HoteiPublishing,idcPublishersand MartinusNijhoffPublishers. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedinaretrievalsystem,or transmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise, withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. AuthorizationtophotocopyitemsforinternalorpersonaluseisgrantedbyKoninklijkeBrillnvprovided thattheappropriatefeesarepaiddirectlytoTheCopyrightClearanceCenter,222RosewoodDrive,Suite910, Danvers,ma01923,usa.Feesaresubjecttochange. Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaper. Vitaemeaeluci ∵ Contents ListofIllustrations ix Abbreviations xi Preface xiii Introduction 1 1 TranscribingtheQurʾaninEarlyUmayyadTimes: TheCodexParisino-petropolitanus 17 2 TheWrittenTransmissionoftheQurʾaninḤijāzīScript. AGeneralAppraisal 37 3 TheTransformationoftheMuṣḥaf 75 4 ImperialScriptoria? 107 Conclusion 135 Bibliography 143 IndexofManuscripts 153 Figures List of Illustrations 1 SaintPetersburg,NLR,Marcel18,f.6b 2 Paris,BNF,Ar.328a,f.29a 3 Paris,BNF,Ar.328a,f.61a 4 Paris,BNF,Ar.328a,f.10a 5 Paris,BNF,Ar.328a,f.25b 6 Tübingen,UB,MaVI165,f.11a 7 Istanbul,TIEM,ŞE118,f.6b 8 Paris,BNF,Ar.328e,f.93a 9 SaintPetersburg,NLR,Marcel19,f.4a 10 Istanbul,TIEM,ŞE3687,f.8b 11 Istanbul,TIEM,ŞE13316/1,f.4a 12 Sanaa,DaM,Inv.01–27.1,f.23a.Graphicalreconstructionofthescriptio inferiorbyHadiyaGurtmann 13 SaintPetersburg,NLR,Marcel18/2,f.41b 14 Istanbul,TIEM,ŞE3702b,f.s.n. 15 Istanbul,TIEM,ŞE9052,f.1a 16 Istanbul,TIEM,SE12827/1,f.1a 17 Kairouan,Muséedesartsisl.,R119,f.23a 18 SaintPetersburg,NLR,Marcel9,f.29b 19 Istanbul,TIEM,ŞE321,f.1b 20 Istanbul,TIEM,ŞE321,f.9a 21 Istanbul,TIEM,ŞE321,f.43a 22 Istanbul,TIEM,ŞE321,f.47a 23 Istanbul,TIEM,ŞE321,f.54a 24 Istanbul,TIEM,ŞE321,f.57b 25 SaintPetersburg,NLR,Marcel13,f.1a 26 Istanbul,TIEM,ŞE165,f.1a 27 Istanbul,TIEM,ŞE4321,f.1a 28 Istanbul,TIEM,ŞE3591,f.1a 29 Istanbul,TIEM,ŞE1186,f.1a 30 Istanbul,TIEM,ŞE63,f.s.n.(detail) 31 Istanbul,TIEM,ŞE71,f.s.n.(detail) 32 SaintPetersburg,NLR,Marcel12,f.3a 33 Istanbul,TIEM,ŞE12903,f.1a 34 Istanbul,TIEM,ŞE4405a,f.2b 35 Dublin,CBL,Is1404,f.57b x list of illustrations 36 Dublin,CBL,Is1404,f.70a/i(afterB.Moritz,Arabicpalaeography,pl.24) 37 Dublin,CBL,Is1404,f.194b/ii(afterB.Moritz,Arabicpalaeography, pl.27) 38 Cairo,Dāral-Kutub,Maṣāḥif387(afterB.Moritz,Arabicpalaeography, pl.17) 39 Sanaa,DaM,Inv.01–29.2,f.s.n. 40 Copenhagen,TheDavidCollection,Inv.no.f.26/2003(photographby PernilleKlemp) 41 Kairouan,Muséedesartsisl.,R38,f.222(detail) 42 Kairouan,Muséedesartsisl.,R38,f.s.n.(detail) 43 Kairouan,Muséedesartsisl.,R38,f.132b,drawingbytheauthor 44 Istanbul,TIEM,ŞE50,f.[35] 45 Istanbul,TIEM,ŞE80,f.s.n. Pictures7,10,11,14–17,19–24,26–31,33–34,39and41–45bytheauthor.