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al-Juzʼ al-thāmin min al-rabʻah al-sharīfah.
الجزء الثامن من الربعة الشريفة.
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Manuscript CAJS Rar Ms 123
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Qurʼan. Selections
- قرآن. Selections. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014107924
- Language:
- Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts.
- Qurʼan--Manuscripts.
- Qurʼan.
- Manuscripts.
- Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, 15th century.
- Qur'ans
- illuminations (paintings)
- Manuscripts.
- Islamic bindings (Binding)
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by the Mamlūk Amīr Aytmish al-Bajasī (d. 1400 CE) and given as an endowment (waqf) to the library attached to the mosque he founded in Bāb al-Wazīr, Cairo (founded 1383 CE) (inscription, f. 1r).
- Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate, inside front cover).
- Physical Description:
- 50 leaves : paper, illuminations ; 370 x 260 (250 x 160) mm bound to 372 x 260 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Egypt?], [between 1400 and 1499?]
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- Illuminated copy of the 8th section of the Qurʼān.
- Notes:
- Title from title page (f. 1r).
- Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; no catchwords.
- Layout: Written in 5 long lines.
- Script: Written in muḥaqqaq in black ink; pointed and vocalized; titles in thuluth.
- Decoration: Illuminated title piece in gold and blue (f. 1r); marginal medallions for text divsions in circle, teardrop, and pointed oval shapes in blue, red and gold with blue finials; verse endings marked by an 8-leaf rosette with blue dots around the edge; some alifs in red; sūrah heading in thuluth script set into a blue oval with gold foliate fill all set into a larger rectangle lined with geometric pattern in gold (f. 22r).
- Binding: Brown leather over pasteboard with detached flap (Type II); front and back cover have an intricate mosaic-style blind- and gold-tooled pattern on a large, circular, lobed central medallion, cornerpieces, and frame; flap is gold and blind-tooled in a coordinating pattern with a circular medallion and frame; doublures are block-stamped leather.
- Origin: The item is undated and unsigned, but was possibly copied in Mamlūk Egypt in the 15th century, possibly for use in a madrasah.
- Laid, non-European paper; visible chain lines in sets of two.
- Donation (waqf) statement added to title page inside title piece (f. 1r)
- Cited as:
- CAJS Rar Ms 123
- OCLC:
- 1131863585
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