[al-Qurʼān].
[القرآن].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Swarthmore College, former owner.

Swarthmore College, donor.

Contributor:

Ṣidqī, Khalīl, scribe.

Swarthmore College, former owner.

Swarthmore College, donor.

صدقي، خليل.

Standardized Title:

Qurʼan.

قرآن.

Language:

Arabic

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

illuminations (paintings)

Qur'ans

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Swarthmore College, given to the University of Pennsylvania in 1967 (note in pencil inside front cover).

Physical Description:

301 leaves : paper, illuminations ; 160 x 105 (102 x 52) mm bound to 162 x 115 mm.

Place of Publication:

[Turkey?], A.H. 1258? (1842)

Language Note:

Arabic.

Summary:

Nearly complete copy of the Qur'ān. Sūrat al-Layl is missing, though the heading is there as are some of the verse-end decorations (f. 297v).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Western numeral foliation in pencil added on every 25th leaf, upper left recto; catchwords on every verso, lower left.

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; textblock ruled in gold, black, red; gold roundels at end of each verse; readings marked in red; text partitions (juzʼ) noted in the margins in purple by a later hand; double page illumination in gold, pink, blue, orange with text on cloudbands in first opening (f. 1v-2r).

Binding: Brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); stamped with floriated central design and frame on both covers and flap; embossed bright orange paper doublure with dark green textile foredge flap lining.

Origin: Copied by al-Sayyid al-Hājj Khalīl al-Ṣidqī, one of Ismāʻīl Zuhrī's students. The copy was likely completed in 1258 (1842), though date is somewhat effaced, probably in Turkey (f. 301v).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1901.

OCLC:

1059578469