Auteur
François Déroche, né à Nancy en 1952, est directeur d’études à l’École pratique des hautes études, IVe section : « Antiquités et codicologies arabes ». Il est correspondant français de l’Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres depuis 2001.
Presentation
The codex Parisino-petropolitanus is one of the earliest witnesses of the handwritten transmission of the Qurʾanic text which survived to this day. The various fragments which were part of the original manuscript are scattered among various collections ; once put together, they provide a unique picture of the state of the text during the 7th century (orthography and textual pecularities) and of the circumstances in which the canonical version as we know it today took shape physically. The present study, first of its kind, paves the way for a more accurate understanding of the beginning of Islam, based on a significant document, and of the evolution of the Qurʾan during that period. (Source Brill)


