[Qurʼān leaves].

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Qurʼan. Selections.

قرآن. Selections.

Language:

Arabic

Genre:

detached leaves

excerpts

Penn Provenance:

Acquired between 2012 and 2016; accessioned 2018.

Physical Description:

2 leaves : paper ; 230 x 160 (190 x 120) mm.

Contained In:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 24 Folder 4

Place of Publication:

[between 1550 and 1699?]

Language Note:

Arabic.

Summary:

Two leaves from the same Qurʼān, though not continuous. Leaf 1 contains the last two words of verse 5 of al-Takāthur (102) through the first two words of verse 6 of al-Humazah (104) . Leaf 2 contains all of al-Kāfirūn (190) except the bismillāh, to the penultimate word of verse 4 of al-Masad (111), called Tabbat yadā here.

Notes:

Ms. leaf.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Western numeral foliation in pencil added, upper left recto.

Layout: 7 long lines, border-ruled.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink, pointed, vocalized. Headers in thuluth.

Decoration: Textblock is border-ruled in double red. Sūrah headers are in gold thuluth outlined in black. Gold lobed roundels with blue and red dots mark verse endings. Readings marked in red.

Origin: Probably copied in the 16th or 17th century, place unknown.

OCLC:

1083529071