Déroche (François) -ed.-, The Qur’an and Its Handwritten Transmission. Current Researches, Leiden, Brill, ("Documenta Coranica ; 4"), 2024, 400 p. ISBN 978-90-04-70692-7
Editor
François Déroche is Professor at the Collège de France, Paris where he holds the chair “History of the Qur’an. Text and Transmission.” The world-leading expert on early Qur’anic manuscripts and Islamic codicology, Déroche has published extensively on these topics, including Qur’ans of the Umayyads (Brill, 2014).
Presentation
The series Documenta Coranica is dedicated to the study of history of the Qurʾānic text as manifested in manuscripts and other sources. Documenta Coranica publishes witnesses of the Qurʾān from the early period in the shape of facsimile, accompanied by transcription and a commentary. The series makes codices on parchment, papyri, inscriptions, variant readings and other relevant sources for the history of the Qurʾān, accessible to the academic public. The first volumes contain manuscript fragments from Sanaa (DAM 01-25.1, DAM 01-27.1, DAM 01-29.1), the manuscript Ma VI 165 (Tübingen), and the codex Or. 2165 of the British Library.
The series comprises two sections: Manuscripta contains facsimile editions of Qurʾānic manuscripts with a line-by-line transcript in Modern Arabic script on the opposite page and a commentary about codicology, paleography, variant readings and verse numbering explaining content and characteristics of each manuscript. Testimonia et Studia contains studies about material evidence for the history of the Qurʾān, as manifested on papyrus, stone and rock inscriptions etc., as well in exegetical, narrative and philological sources.
Documenta Coranica inscribes itself into a German-French cooperation: in the framework of the research project Coranica, 2011-2014, and Paleocoran 2015-2018, both funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche.
Content
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
1 Le codex perdu d’Ibn Masʿūd, version coranique inachevée. Remarques sur la flexibilité du Coran des origines
Hassan Chahdi
2 Consonantal Dotting in Early Qurʾānic Manuscripts: a Fully Dotted Qurʾān Fragment from the First/Seventh Century
Eléonore Cellard
3 Early Qurʾānic Manuscripts: Re-mediating their Manuscript Page in the Most Recent Digital Form as Part of the InterSaME Project
Alba Fedeli
4 The Evolution of Maghribī Vocalisation
Marijn van Putten
5 The End of a Mystery? A Study of the Blue Qurʾān’s History
François Déroche
6 Against Scriptio Continua
Iranian Approaches to the Copying of the Qurʾān during the Second and Third Centuries AH (Eighth and Ninth Centuries CE)
Morteza Karimi-Nia
7 Le Paratexte dans les manuscrits coraniques. Notes marginales et interlinéaires dans les fragments coraniques de la collection de Kairouan
Asma Helali
8 Les manuscrits coraniques de Nishapur au début du Ve/XIe siècle
Alya Karame
9 Formes et fonctions de l’ornement dans les manuscrits coraniques de l’Inde médiévale
Éloïse Brac de la Perrière
10 The Qurʾān: Production, Transmission, and Reception in the Mudejar and Morisco Communities
Nuria de Castilla
Index of Manuscripts