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

Title

Other related names

• Monif, Hassan Khan, -1968, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977571412903681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1114308373
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0016/html/NEP17.html

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

between 1500 and 1599?

Summary

Dual-page illuminated copy of al-Fātiḥah, the first sūrah of the Qurʼān. The leaves are both blank on the verso, are written on thin paper and have been remounted onto machine-made paper.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 410 x 260 (250 x 135) mm.
   
• Laid, non-European paper; no visible chain lines.
   

Extent

Foliation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

Text in white, surrounded by small, polychrome flowers, set onto a central gold medallion, itself set within a blue and gold patterned field. Polychrome and gold flowers and vines appear throughout the background pattern. The medallion is framed by lines of cartouches in red, white, light purple, light blue, blue, beige, and white. Surrounding the frame, the outer margins are also entirely covered in a different blue and gold patterned field also set with flowers and vines. A set of rules in blue, gold, red, green, wider gold, pink, and blue appear along what would be the gutter side of the leaf.

Script

Provenance

• Gift of H. Khan Monif in 1928
   

Subjects topical

• Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Dual-page illuminated copy of al-Fātiḥah]

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 2r — Dual-page illuminated opening