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Codex Mashhad
''Codex Mashhad'' is an old codex of the Qurʾān, now mostly preserved in two manuscripts, MSS 18 and 4116, in the Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi, Āstān-i Quds Library, Mashhad, Iran. The first manuscript in 122 folios and the second in 129 folios together constitute more than 90% of the text of the Qurʾān. The current codex is in two separate volumes, MSS 18 and 4116. The former contains the first half of the Qurʾān, from the beginning to the end of the 18th sūra, ''al-Kahf'', while the latter comprises the second half, from the middle of the 20th sūra, ''Ṭāhā'', to the end of the Qurʾān. In their present form, both parts of ''Codex Mashhad'' have been repaired, partially completed with pieces from later Kufic Qurʾāns and sometimes in a present-day ''nashkī'' hand. ''Codex Mashhad'' has almost all the elements and features of the oldest known Qurʾānic codices. The dual volumes of the main body, written in ''ḥijāzī'' or ''māʾil'' script, are the onl ...
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Codex Mashhad, MS 18, Folios 50r, 49v
The codex (: codices ) was the historical ancestor format of the modern book. Technically, the vast majority of modern books use the codex format of a stack of pages Bookbinding, bound at one edge, along the side of the text. But the term ''codex'' is now reserved for older manuscript books, which mostly used sheets of vellum, parchment, or papyrus, rather than paper. By convention, the term is also used for any Aztec codex (although the earlier examples do not actually use the codex format), Maya codices and other Pre-Columbian era, pre-Columbian manuscripts. Library practices have led to many European manuscripts having "codex" as part of their usual name, as with the Codex Gigas, while most do not. Modern books are divided into paperback (or softback) and those bound with stiff boards, called hardbacks. Elaborate historical bindings are called treasure bindings. At least in the Western world, the main alternative to the paged codex format for a long document was the continuo ...
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Codex Mashhad, MS 4116, Folios B100b And B101a
The codex (: codices ) was the historical ancestor format of the modern book. Technically, the vast majority of modern books use the codex format of a stack of pages bound at one edge, along the side of the text. But the term ''codex'' is now reserved for older manuscript books, which mostly used sheets of vellum, parchment, or papyrus, rather than paper. By convention, the term is also used for any Aztec codex (although the earlier examples do not actually use the codex format), Maya codices and other pre-Columbian manuscripts. Library practices have led to many European manuscripts having "codex" as part of their usual name, as with the Codex Gigas, while most do not. Modern books are divided into paperback (or softback) and those bound with stiff boards, called hardbacks. Elaborate historical bindings are called treasure bindings. At least in the Western world, the main alternative to the paged codex format for a long document was the continuous scroll, which was the domina ...
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