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Kitāb Qiṣṣat Sayyidinā Yūsuf.
كتاب قصة سيدنا يوسف.
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Manuscript CAJS Rar Ms 136
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Joseph (Son of Jacob).
- Qurʼan. Sūrat Yūsuf.
- Islamic interpretations of sacred works.
- Joseph (Son of Jacob)--Islamic interpretations.
- Joseph.
- Qurʼan. Sūrat Yūsuf--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Qurʼan.
- Qurʼan stories.
- Joseph (Son of Jacob) in the Qurʼan.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Muṣṭafá Karīmī al-Ḥamawī. It ended up in his possession on 12 Shaʻbān 1159 (30 August, 1746) from its previous owner al-Ḥājj Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj Mūsá, al-ʻAṭṭār al-Ṭarābulusī (note, f. 1r).
- Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (inscription, envelope housing).
- Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (inscription, envelope housing).
- Physical Description:
- 93 leaves : paper ; 205 x 140 (155 x 95) mm bound to 205 x 150 mm
- Production:
- [between 1700 and 1799?]
- Other Title:
- Qiṣṣat Sayyidinā Yūsuf.
- قصة سيدنا يوسف.
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- Story of Joseph based on the Qurʼān sūrah 12 and embroidered with stories and verses of a devotional nature. Divided into sections by the word faṣl, stories are preceded by the word ḥikāyah and the verses by shiʻr. Occasional marginal notes in a different hand. Copy ends abruptly.
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (f. 1r)
- Foliation: Foliation in ink in Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper left recto. Pagination also in ink in Hindu-Arabic numerals on f. [1]v through f. 45r.
- Layout: Written in 15 long lines in black and red ink, with marginalia. Catchwords at the end of every leaf.
- Script: Written in naskh in black ink; quotations are vocalised and in quotation marks, which are written in red ink.
- Binding: Textblock detached from binding, of which only one blind-stamped leather board and spine remain; board is stamped with central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis. Housed with a paper envelope with printed address of Dropsie College and ms. inscriptions in Roman and Arabic scripts identifying contents and donor.
- Origin: Item is undated; an owner's note places it before 1746; probably produced in the 18th century.
- Watermark: Crown-star-crescent.
- Cited as:
- CAJS Rar Ms 136.
- OCLC:
- 276878148
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