© koninklijke brill nv, leiden,  | doi:./X- Journal of Islamic Manuscripts  () – brill.com/jim Arabe 334a. A Vocalized Kufic Quran in a Non-canonical Hijazi Reading Marijn van Putten Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) m.van.putten@hum.leidenuniv.nl Abstract This is a study of the Quranic manuscript Arabe 334a held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It is a vocalized manuscript representing a Quranic reading tradition that falls outside the canonical ten reading traditions known to us today. It is shown that this manuscript, on the basis of verse division, is a Hijazi (probably Medinan) manuscript. The reading represented in the vocalization is likely also a non-canonical Hijazi read- ing. This article contains an edition of the folios of this manuscript and an in-depth study of the orthography, vocalization, verse division, and general principles and spe- cific variants of the reading. Keywords Kufic Quranic manuscripts – reading traditions – vocalization – non-canonical read- ings 1 Introduction ,  This paper is an edition and study of the Quranic manuscript Arabe 334a, part of a larger collection of Kufic Quranic manuscripts known as Arabe 334 that is located at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It was described by François 1 Submitted on 19 March 2019. Accepted for publication on 23 April 2019. 2 I would like to thank Hythem Sidky and Eléonore Cellard for providing indispensable com- ments while writing this paper. I am also thankful for further comments and corrections by Benjamin Suchard.