Collection ID: 0003 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

al-Qurʼān.
[القرآن]

Other related names

• Jūdī, ʻUmar, active 1754, scribe
  جودي، عمر،
• Usis, Felix, former owner
• Usis, Felix, donor

Call number

BV 52
(Bryn Mawr, PA, Bryn Mawr College Libraries, Special Collections)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1135061985
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/bv_052.html
• https://tricolib.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01TRI_INST:BMC

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Libraries

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1754 or 1755

Place

Turkey

Summary

Nearly complete copy of the Qurʼān, the first two folios are missing, so the text begins with verse 17 of al-Baqarah and one folio is missing from the end, so the last complete sūrah is al-Māʻūn.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

I, 300, i leaves : 190 x 125 (140 x 70) mm bound to 175 x 127 mm

Foliation

Pagination was added by a later hand in two different styles in black ink and in blue wax pencil (p. 3-134); continuing pagination added in pencil every other page, upper left recto (135-601).

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in reddish leather over pasteboard with flap that does not match the depth of the textblock (Type II); covers with stamped paper onlay central mandorla and cornerpieces; blind tooled pendants on the vertical axis. Flap design matches cover design. Plain paper pastedowns.

Layout

Written in 15 long lines; border-ruled.

Decoration

Textblock border-ruled in gold; floral marginal medallions mark text divisions; sūrah titles in white ink on gold bars; black ink roundels with gold, red and blue dots mark verse endings; readings in red. Finispiece in bright colors contains colophon.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Felix Usis in 1983.
   

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 18th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Blind-tooled (decoration)
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Onlays (decorative components)

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• 3 — al-Qurʼān.

Decorations

• 21 — Example of marginal medallion
• 75 — Example of sūrah heading
• 601 — Illuminated finispiece
• 601 — Notations