Manuscripts of Quranic Muṣḥafs (10): Kūfī Quran 4289 in the National Museum of Iran and its other stolen part in the Pars Museum (Shiraz):

< p >The Manuscript number 4289 in the National Museum of Iran was originally a 14-piece Qur''an on the skin from the third century AH, which, unlike other ancient versions of Kūfī, probably had an Iranian scribe. This article tries to achieve three separate goals by examining the different aspects of this version. First, the general characteristics of this important Kufic version from the third century AH and its differences from other copies of 7-line Kufic in the third century, along with providing information about other scattered papers and components that originally belonged to the same Qur''an. Secondly, it indicates that another 7-line Kufic version, number 548, which was stolen two decades ago from the Pars Museum (Shiraz), was another piece of the same Qur''an, which after the theft, its various pages was sold out between 2004 and 2020, in Various London auctions (Sotheby''s, Christie''s and Bonhams). Thirdly, it shows that this Kūfī Qur''an, unlike all the versions of Hejazi and Kūfī Qur''ans of the first centuries, did not follow the tradition of "attached writing" or "Peyvaste Nigari" in writing letters and words. This is probably due to the special style of Iranian scribes (Khorasan and Transoxiana) who considered breaking words at the end of a line to be ugly and disgusting. During the third to seventh centuries, the Iranian used the Iranian style of Kufic writing which is known as detached writing. The author speculates that this is due to the cultural connection of the people of these areas with the tradition of writing in Iranian and non-Iranian languages ​​in Khorasan, Transoxiana and pre-Islamic Turkestan, which, unlike the western regions, did not follow the attached writing style.
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