A Rediscovered Almoravid Qurʾān in the Bavarian State Library, Munich (Cod. arab. 4)

This article examines and contextualizes a small Quranic manuscript, copied in al-Andalus in 533/1138–1139, whose importance has so far gone unrecognized. Among its many interesting features are: its early date; its lavish illumination; its colophon and the information contained therein; its system...