An Archeological Artistic Study for two quranic parchments in Burmangham University Library in U.K

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Lecturer at Islamic Archeology Depertment Faculty of archaeology –Qena South Vally University(Egypt)

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This research studies two parchments which were found in Burmangham University Library in U.K in a group (Alphones Mingana) some of national websites mentioned that they are the oldest Quranic parchments in the world yet there is still a difference in their history.
These study is atry to approximate History of this Parchment and compare these parchments preserved in the national Library in Paris .which were written with the same calligraphy and studying the Alphabets of two parchments and Extract Alpha for them through them we can make history for the rest of the kept parchment in the different museums during the same era

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    1. websites:

      http://corpuscoranicum.de/handschriften-1-4-2017
    2.   http://vmr.bham.ac.uk/Collections/Mingana/Islamic_Arabic1-4-2017

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