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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 ...
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 ...
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 .
Manuscripts with Hijazi script also utilized the rules of scripto continua and displayed no decoration or ornamentation. [9] Under the reign of Umayyad caliph, Abd-al-Malik (685–705), Qur'anic script was standardized and inserted onto other surfaces such as marble as a way to promote Arabic in the region. [8]
Infant saint, by tradition born and died at Walton Grounds, near the village of King's Sutton, Northamptonshire: Hadulph 662 Bishop of Arras Cambrai: Maximus the Confessor: 580 662 Pelinus of Brindisi 662 Cunibert 663 Bishop of Cologne: Aileran (Sapiens the Wise) 664 Cedd 664 Deusdedit (Freithona) 664 Tuda of Lindisfarne 664
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 following list contains saints from Anglo-Saxon England during the period of Christianization until the Norman Conquest of England (c. AD 600 to 1066). It also includes British saints of the Roman and post-Roman period (3rd to 6th centuries), and other post-biblical saints who, while not themselves English, were strongly associated with particular religious houses in Anglo-Saxon England ...