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The style is Hijazi script. The Codex Parisino-Petropolitanus (CPP) is one of the oldest extant manuscripts of the Quran, attributed to the 7th century. The largest part of the fragmentary manuscript is held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, as BnF Arabe 328(ab), with 70 folia.
Hijazi script (Arabic: خَطّ ٱَلحِجَازِيّ, romanized: khaṭṭ al-ḥijāzī) is the collective name for several early Arabic scripts that developed in the Hejaz (the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula), a region that includes the cities of Mecca and Medina. This type of script was already in use at the time of the emergence of ...
Old Hijazi, is a variety of Old Arabic attested in Hejaz (the western part of Saudi Arabia) from about the 1st century to the 7th century. It is the variety thought to underlie the Quranic Consonantal Text (QCT) and in its later iteration was the prestige spoken and written register of Arabic in the Umayyad Caliphate .
Hijazi manuscripts are some of the earliest forms of Quranic texts, and can be characterized by Hijazi script. [1] Hijazi script is distinguished by its "informal, sloping Arabic script." [10] The most widely used Qurans were written in the Hijazi style script, a style that originates before Kufic style script. This is portrayed by the ...
Hijazi script from an 8th-century Qur'anic manuscript Manuscripts of the Qu'ran have been created and copied since the Umayyad period (661–750CE). [ 8 ] Over the course of this period, copies of Qur'anic manuscripts were produced in Damascus and were named the "Damascus papers."
Close-up of part of folio 2 recto, showing chapter division and verse-end markings in Hijazi script. The two leaves have been recognised [2] [9] [10] as belonging with the 16 leaves catalogued as BnF Arabe 328(c) [11] [12] in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, now bound with the Codex Parisino-petropolitanus, and witness verses corresponding to a lacuna in that text.
The Arabic alphabet is first attested in its classical form in the 7th century. See PERF 558 for the first surviving Islamic Arabic writing. The Quran was transcribed in Kufic script at first, which was then developed along with the Meccan and Medini scripts, according to Ibn an-Nadim in Al-Fihrist. [13]
Old Arabic and its descendants are classified as Central Semitic languages, which is an intermediate language group containing the Northwest Semitic languages (e.g., Aramaic and Hebrew), the languages of the Dadanitic, Taymanitic inscriptions, the poorly understood languages labeled Thamudic, and the ancient languages of Yemen written in the Ancient South Arabian script.