Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

al-Fātiḥah to al-Anʻām 165.

Other related names

• Levitsky, Joseph, 1892-, former owner
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 282
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977642241403681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1131862102
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms_282.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1850 and 1899?

Place

North Africa

Summary

Copy of the Qurʼān from the first sūrah through sūrat al-Anʻām verse 165.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

92 paginated leaves : 213 x 170 (165 x 110) mm bound to 215 x 175 mm

Foliation

Modern pagination added in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Red leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind stamped central diamond with blind tooled border and frame; plain paper doublure cut into a zigzag pattern along the outside edges.

Layout

Written in 15 long lines.

Decoration

Illuminated polychrome marginal medallions showing text divisions; sūrah titles in red and green; green and yellow points throughout the text; vocalizations in red, readings in blue.

Script

Written in maghribī in dark brown ink; pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Dr. Joseph Levitsky to the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on library bookplate, inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate, inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens
• Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Qurʼans
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts
• Specimens
• Full covers
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Islamic bindings (Binding)

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• 1 — [al-Fātiḥah to al-Anʻām 165].

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• 3 — Example of marginal medallion
• 4 — Example of marginal medallion
• 7 — Example of marginal medallion
• Spine — Label: "Ms 344"