[Devotional book].

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Contributor:

• Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼan, Aḥmad, scribe.
• McClenahan, Jean P., 1908-1994, former owner.
• حافظ القرأن، احمد.

Language:

Arabic

Subjects (All):

• Qurʼan--Selections.
• Islam--Prayers and devotions.
• Prayer--Islam.

Genre:

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• illuminations (paintings)
• prayers (compositions)

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 back flyleaf 1v).

Physical Description:

101 leaves : paper, illuminations ; 170 x 105 (115 x 65) mm bound to 170 x 120 mm.

Place of Publication:

[between 1830 and 1899?]

Language Note:

Arabic.

Summary:

Devotional book containing selections from the Qur'an followed by prayers; several full page illuminations in polychrome and gold.

Contents:

• 1. f. 1v: al-Fā̄tiḥah (1)
• 2. f. 2r-5r: Selection from al-Baqarah (2:1-21)
• 3. f. 5v-32v: al-Anʻām (6)
• 4. f. 32v-39v: Yā Sīn (36)
• 5. f. 39v-42v: al-Dukhān (44)
• 6. f. 43r-49r: al-Aḥqāf (46)
• 7. 49r-54v: al-Fatḥ (48)
• 8. f. 54v-58v: al-Raḥmān (55)
• 9. f. 59r-63r: al-Wāqiʻah (56)
• 10. f. 63r-66v: al-Mulk (67)
• 11. f. 66r-68v: al-Nabā̄ʼ (78)
• 12. f. 68v-97r: Assortment of Prayers
• 13. f. 97r-99r: Set of illuminations
• 14: f. 99v-100r: Dual page blessings
• 15: f. 100v-101r: Prayers of closure.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Foliation: Modern Western foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords most versos, lower left.
• Layout: 9 long lines with border rules.
• Script: Written in clear naskh using black ink; pointed, vocalized.
• Decoration: Titles in white ink, framed in gold and floriated designs; textblock ruled in gold, red, black; gold roundels with red, blue, and green dots punctuate the text; polychrome and gold medallions in the margins; double page illuminations in polychrome and gold with text on cloudbands (f. 1v-2r, 5v-6,); full page illuminations of the name Allāh (f. 97v) and Muḥammad (f. 98r), two seals: muhr nubbūt (f. 98v), muhr Sulaymān (f. 99r) and a dual page illumination that includes the names of the first four Caliphs and Ḥusayn and Ḥasan (f. 99v-100r).
• Binding: Dark brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); blind stamped mandorla with two pendants on both outside covers, along with gilded, embossed paper inlays and gilt stamped corners and frame; mandorla and frame gilt-stamped on inside covers as well.
• Paper: Different types of paper make up the volume, including machine-made Ottoman.
• Origin: Copied by Aḥmad al-Maʻarūf bi-Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼan (f. 97r), likely in the mid to late 1800s.
• Funeral announcement for Ḥusayn Rushdī Pasha (1863-1928), prime minister of Egypt (1914-1919), laid in.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1902.

OCLC:

1059578218