Codex of the Southern Coast

Codex of the Southern Coast

North Africa, c. 1340

1340 CE · Late MedievalCoastal North Africa

A rare fourteenth-century codex preserved through six centuries of custodianship. Iron-gall ink on burnished parchment, with rubricated marginalia recording the reader's notes.

Bibliography

  • George N. Atiyeh. The Book in the Islamic World. 1995