Quran Manuscript Attributed to Imam Reza (AS) on Display at Astan Quds Museum
It is on display on the occasion of Ten-day Karamat Celebrations that mark the birth anniversaries of Imam Reza (AS) and Hazrat Masoumeh (SA).
Mohammad Reza Saghi, an official with the museum, said the manuscript contains 27 sheets made of gazelle parchment.
He said the verses on the manuscript are in Kufic script, of the oldest forms of Arabic script, IRIB News reported.
It contains 13 Surahs (chapters) of the Quran, including Nur, Qasas, Ankabut, Rum, and Luqman, he stated.
Saghi noted that the manuscript measures 25 by 17.7 centimeters and has 16 lines in each page.
A number of other rare data-x-items are also on show at the museum until the end of the Ten-day Karamat Celebrations on August 26, which marks the birth anniversary of Imam Reza (AS).
