al-Qurʼān, between 1830 and 1940.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Abdulrazak, Fawzi, former owner.

Fez Lithographs Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Qurʼan. Selections. Arabic.

Qurʼan

Language:

Arabic

Genre:

Qur'ans.

Manuscripts, Arabic.

Manuscripts.

Penn Provenance:

Sold as part of the Fez Lithographs Collection by Fawzi Abdulrazak (Cambridge, Massachusetts), 2013.

Physical Description:

1 volume (66 leaves) : paper ; 229 x 177 mm

Contained In:

Collection of Fez Manuscripts. Item 25

Other Title:

Qurʼān karīm

قرآن کرىم

Place of Publication:

between 1830 and 1940.

Language Note:

In Arabic.

Summary:

Incomplete text: begins with Sūrat al-Aʻrāf, āyat 127 (7:127) and ends with Sūrat al-Nūr, āyat 64 (24:64).

Notes:

Probably written in Morocco, in Maghribi script; vocalization in red ink; some decoration in red, yellow, and green ink (f. 47v).

Damage from worms at the beginning of the manuscript (f. 1-8) and oxidized ink throughout, resulting in brittleness and minor breaks and holes in many leaves.

Modern quarter leather binding (Type 3) with gilt spine title.

Not listed in the Fez Lithographs Collection handlist.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 960, Item 25.

OCLC:

920673019