Collection ID: 0016 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

al-Qurʼān
[القرآن]

Other related names

• Barzalīʹzādah, Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Chalabī, former owner
  برزلى‌ز‌اده، محمد صالح چلبى،
• Holmes, Jesse H., Jr., active 1973, former owner

Call number

Penn Museum 73-14-1
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977570026103681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1111632167
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0016/html/73_14_1.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1500 and 1599?

Place

Iran?

Summary

Illuminated copy of the Qurʼān; some leaves torn and loose; boards are detached; some of the border-rules have eaten through the paper.

Notes

• Titles supplied by cataloger.
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 230 x 155 (126 x 70) mm bound to 230 x 154 mm.
   
• Laid, non-European paper; no visible chain lines.
   
• A scrap of printed fabric and a feather laid in.
   

Extent

1 online resource (376 unfoliated leaves) :

Foliation

Leaves are unfoliated; catchwords every verso, lower left (some have been trimmed)

Support

Illuminations.

Binding

Bound in black leather over pasteboard covers (detached) with faint, blind-tooled frame of double lines set 20 mm apart.

Layout

Written in 12 long lines.

Decoration

Dual-page illuminated first opening in gold and blue with the text on contoured bands with tiny, blue vine and leaf fill (f. [1]v-[2]r); several different types of marginal medallions to show text divisions and verse count primarily in gold and blue with red and green additions and with blue finials extending as radiant lines; sūrah titles in white on gold ground with a delicate, black, curving vine and leaf design border-ruled in green and blue or red and blue; gold roundels lined in blue with red centers mark verse endings; textblock is border-ruled in red, green, gold and blue; readings in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Jesse H. Holmes, Jr. in 1973.
   
• Formerly owned by Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Chalabī ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb Chalabī Barzalīʹzādah (note f. [377]v).
   

Subjects topical

• Illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens

Genres

• Fascimiles
• Qurʼans
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 16th century

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Qurʼān]

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual-page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual-page illumination
• fol. 2v — Example of circular marginal medallion
• fol. 3v — Example of circular marginal medallion
• fol. 5r — Example of a ḥizb marker
• fol. 8r — Example of niṣf marker
• fol. 14v — Example of juzʾ marker with number
• fol. 31r — Example of sūrah heading
• fol. 376v — Owner's note