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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Adambd13, post: 10776740, member: 94038&quot;]This popped up after I wrote my last post. It is quite dated, but I see that nothing definitive was stated. It is an Arabic manuscript that is perhaps from the 17th or 18th centuries, but I would need to see more to offer a more confident opinion. It is a legal text that is dealing with two types of sale contracts: (1) Advanced purchases (i.e. the conditions of an advanced purchase on credit and what legal mechanisms are available to the seller if the purchaser defaults), and (2) bulk purchases, with commodities such as crops). </p><p><br /></p><p>Qur&#039;anic manuscripts were mentioned. A standard Qur&#039;anic manuscript would range from a very simple handwritten text to very ornate and highly decorated texts. There would be no writing in the margins, except for technical signposts, indicating the ends of sections, etc. The tradition of Qur&#039;anic commentaries, a different genre of texts, is a vast one and will often involve copious marginal notes. In fact, there will often be layers of notes, with the initial commentary and then supplementary notes from generations of owners of the manuscript or student notes if it was used within a study / lecture environment. </p><p><br /></p><p>I hope that helps.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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