[al-Qurʼān].
[القرآن].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

ʻUthmān ibn Shaykh Muḥammad, scribe.

عثمان بن شيخ محمد.

Standardized Title:

Qurʼan.

قرآن. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79046204

Language:

Arabic

Turkish, Ottoman

Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic.

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Illuminations (painting)

Qur'ans.

Physical Description:

295 leaves : paper, illuminations ; 178 x 106 (130 x 63) mm, bound to 179 x 114 mm

Place of Publication:

[between 1750 and 1850?]

Language Note:

Arabic, with three pages in Ottoman Turkish.

Summary:

Manuscript of the Qurʼān. The last three pages contain a commentary in Turkish (f. 294v-295v). The manuscript is in quite poor condition because the border-rules have eaten through the paper which has caused many of the textblocks to loosen.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Layout: 15 lines per page, border-ruled.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink.

Decoration: Simple polychrome (orange, blue, gold) dual-page illumination on first opening (f. 1v-2r); textblock border-ruled in gold and black; gold roundels, some with orange dots, mark verse ends; gold medallions in the margin mark text partitions; sūrah titles in white ink on gold backgrounds. Much of the gold color has deteriorated and turned green (verdigris).

Binding: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II). Covers are blind stamped with a double line frame around double line diagonals reaching from corner to corner and crossed horizontally by another double line. The flap and foredge cover have coordinating stamped double lines. Endbands are blue, green, and white thread in a chevron pattern.

Origin: Copied by ʻUthmān ibn Shaykh Muḥammad, probably in the mid-18th to mid-19th century, perhaps in Turkey given the notes in Turkish at the end (f. 294r).

Watermarks: Wreath and grapes.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 31.

OCLC:

794865451