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[al-Qurʼān].
[القرآن].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1903
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Standardized Title:
- Qurʼan.
- قرآن.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- illuminations (paintings)
- Qur'ans
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Mrs. William McClenahan, likely Jean P., wife of Dr. William U. McClenahan, given to the libraries in 1969 (note in pencil on flyleaf 1v).
- Physical Description:
- 304 leaves : paper, illuminations ; 170 x 105 (115 x 65) mm bound to 170 x 123 mm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Turkey?], A.H. 1119 (1708)
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- Complete copy of the Qur'ān. This copy also includes a prayer to be said upon completion of the Qur'ān (f. 303v).
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Foliation: First 100 pages numbered by a later hand in purple Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper outer corners. Modern western numeral foliation in pencil added, upper left recto; catchwords on every verso, lower left. References in the record are to modern foliation.
- Layout: 15 long lines with border rules.
- Script: Written in naskh using black ink; pointed, vocalized.
- Decoration: Sūrah titles in white ink, framed in gold and floriated designs; textblock ruled in gold and black; gold roundels with red and blue dots at end of each verse; readings marked in red; text partitions (ḥizb) marked in the margins by polychrome and gold medallions; double page illumination in gold, blue, and red with text on cloudbands in first opening (f. 1v-2r); tailpiece of gold floral design under colophon, which is written on incomplete cloudbands (f. 304r).
- Binding: Dark brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II) and red leather spine; blind stamped mandorla with two pendants and cornerpieces on both covers and flap; gilded red paper onlays with gold tooled pattern and frame; gold tooled pattern on foredge flap. Green paper doublure with green textile foredge hinge doublure.
- Origin: Copied in A.H. 1119 (1708) by ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥusnī ibn al-Ḥājj ʻAbdī al-Lārndawī (f. 304r).
- Errata sheet laid in ("hādhā al-muṣḥaf mukhālif li-al-rasm al-ʻuthmānī").
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1903.
- OCLC:
- 1059578293
- Access Restriction:
- Access to this item is subject to staff review.
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