Collection ID: 0030 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

al-Qurʼān :
[القرآن]

Other related names

• Dirīsh Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, active 1730, scribe
  دريش محمد بن موسى،

Call number

SCRC 447
(Philadelphia, United States, Temple University, Special Collections Research Center)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 991037399808103811
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1144805029
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0030/html/SCRC_447.html
• https://librarysearch.temple.edu/catalog/991037399808103811

Publisher

Temple University

Language

Materials in Arabic

Origin

Date

1730

Place

Turkey?

Summary

Complete copy of an Ottoman region manuscript Qur'an.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   

Extent

352 leaves : 160 x 103 mm, bound to 161 x 120 mm

Foliation

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

Collation

Paper, 352. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Dark brown leather binding with medallions and gold decoration.

Layout

13 long lines; frame-ruled.

Decoration

Polychrome and gold illuminated frontispiece (f. 1v-2r) with text in cloudbands. Polychrome and gold chapter headings. Gold roundels mark verse endings. Border-rules and page-frame ruled in gold. Polychrome and gold marginal medallions.

Script

Written in naskh in black and red ink; pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

• Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books ;
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Manuscripts, Turkish--18th century

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Qurʼans
• Manuscripts (documents)

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• 2 — [al-Qurʼān].
• 724 — Colophon

Decorations

• 2 — Dual-page illumination
• 3 — Dual page illumination
• 9 — Example of marginal medallion
• 85 — Example of illuminated sūrah divider