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

Title

al-Juzʼ al-thalāthūn.
الجزء الثلاثون

Other related names

• Brecher, Adolf, former owner
• Jastrow, Morris, Jr., 1861-1921, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 24
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9914691823503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86167193

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1850?

Summary

Complete copy of part 30 of the Qurʼān, from al-Nabāʼ (78) to the end.

Notes

• Title from margin of opening page (f. 1v).
   
• Inside front cover is the following note, signed by Morris Jastrow, Jr. and dated Feb. 1890 in Philadelphia: "It was used by a Turkish soldier during the recent Russo-Turkish War (187- ) & upon his death in battle fell into the hands of a physician of Austrian origin. Presented to me by Dr. Adolf Brecher of Olmütz (Moravia) in 1888."
   
• On the page facing the above note by Dr. Jastrow is the (Roman) alphabet in German cursive script capitals, written in pencil and upside down in relation to the book.
   

Watermark

Trelune.

Extent

24 leaves : 205 x 140 (150 x 80) mm bound to 205 x 145 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in dark brown leather with flap (Type II); blind stamped central mandorla and blind ruled frame; flap has smaller, matching blind stamped mandorla.

Layout

9 long lines.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Adolf Brecher (Jastrow note inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by Morris Jastrow, Jr.; gift of Morris Jastrow, Jr. (plate inside front cover).
   

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--19th century
• Codices
• Qurʼans
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Envelope flaps (features)

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Codex 24: al-Juzʼ al-thalāthūn. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  To the extent possible under law, University of Pennsylvania Libraries has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Codex 24: al-Juzʼ al-thalāthūn.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

Table of contents

• fol. 1v — al-Juzʼ al-thalāthūn.