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[al-Qurʼān].
[القرآن].
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Manuscript CAJS Rar Ms 122
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.
- Standardized Title:
- Qurʼan.
- قرآن. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79046204
- Language:
- Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Qurʼan--Manuscripts.
- Qurʼan.
- Manuscripts.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, 18th century.
- Manuscripts, 19th century.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Qur'ans
- Islamic bindings (Binding)
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
- Physical Description:
- 477 leaves : paper ; 222 x 160 (160 x 90) mm bound to 220 x 170 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [between 1750 and 1899?]
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- Complete copy of the Qurʼān, written in several different hands (f. [0]-8; f. 9-17; f. 18-30) on several different types of paper; many leaves repaired; the first 30 leaves are later replacements.
- Notes:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper center recto (1a-252, 252[a]-476); catchwords every verso lower left.
- Layout: Written in 11 long lines.
- Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized.
- Decoration: Textblock ruled in double red and blue with page-opening frame-ruled in single blue; rubrications in red; sūrah headings in red; marginal text division markers and rukūʻ markers in red.
- Binding: Bound in brown leather over thick pasteboard with flap (Type II); embossed paper onlays of a central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis, cornerpieces, and triangles between each set of cornerpieces; blind-tooled frame; blue and white chevron pattern endbands.
- Origin: The item is undated and unsigned, possibly completed in the second half of the 18th or 19th century.
- Cited as:
- CAJS Rar Ms 122
- OCLC:
- 1131862518
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