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

Title

al-Qurʼān.
[القرآن]

Other related names

• Ṣidqī, Khalīl, scribe
  صدقي، خليل.
• Swarthmore College, former owner
• Swarthmore College, donor

Call number

Ms. Codex 1901
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977406952303681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1059578469

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1258? (1842)

Place

Turkey?

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.
   

Extent

301 leaves : 160 x 105 (102 x 52) mm bound to 162 x 115 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

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.

Layout

15 long lines with border rules.

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).

Script

Written in naskh using black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

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

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Qurʼans
• Manuscripts, Arabic--19th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — al-Qurʼān.

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination