Ricerc@Sapienza

This is an overview of Arab manuscripts fragment models. In addition to summarizing the considerations expressed in the scientific debate about the function and nature - unitary and complete or fragmentary and partial ab origine - of the San’a ̄ ’palimpsest, the study presents a new research, photographic and textual, of some Koranic fragments - including three pages of the famous Koran of Ama ̄gˇu ̄r - kept at the Damascus Calligraphy Museum. The case of one of the most famous depository of manuscript fragments known in the Arab-Islamic world - the type-genizah depository of the Qubbat al-khazna of Damascus - has also been discussed, based on edition of a fragment of the Old Testament deriving from this discovery. Fragments of Arabic manuscripts produced in regions of Da ̄r al-Isla ̄m such as Andalusia and Central Asia and the fragments of illuminated manuscripts have also been mentioned.