[al-Qurʼān].
[القرآن].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Standardized Title:

Qurʼan. Selections

قرآن. Selections. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014107924

Language:

Arabic

Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic.

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Qur'ans.

Illuminations (painting)

Physical Description:

234 leaves : paper, illuminations ; 160 x 110 (120 x 60) mm bound to 162 x 115 mm

Place of Publication:

[between 1800 and 1850?]

Language Note:

Arabic.

Summary:

Incomplete copy of the Qurʼān that includes al-Fātiḥah (1) through al-Bayyinah (98), without al-Qadr (97). For chapters 76:4-98, the text is written in a slightly simpler style with no titles (last 10 leaves). Doodles, pen tests, or scribbling in the margins. A number of leaves are torn or otherwise damaged and missing text.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Item is unfoliated.

Layout: 15 long lines; border-ruled.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Decoration: Polychrome (chiefly green and red) dual page illuminated opening, though the left hand page is ripped and missing a portion (f. 1v-2r). Sūrah headers in red, set off by rules; textblock ruled in red; red roundels to mark verse endings; readings in red.

Binding: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind-stamped and tooled central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis, cornerpieces and frame with leaf motif. Flap is also blind-stamped with coordinating stamps. Red endbands. Doublure of marbled paper in red, yellow and green.

Origin: Item is undated, but probably copied in the first half of the 19th century.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 30.

OCLC:

122543237