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

Title

al-Qurʼān.
[القرآن]

Other related names

• Melek Ahmet Paşa, -1662, associated name
• Pīr Valī Muḥammad Pāshā, active 1661, associated name
  پير ولى محمد پاشا،
• Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923, former owner
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 121
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924371913503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1150882887
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms121.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1550 and 1650?

Summary

Complete copy of the Qurʼān with a final prayer; border-rules have corroded the paper on some leaves.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Waqf note, partially scrubbed (f. 1r); stamp (f. 1r); stamp is repeated throughout, often effaced but occasionally visible (see f. 121r, 166r, 292r, 318r, 345r, 360r).
   

Extent

Ii, 379, ii leaves : 316 x 220 (202 x 125) mm bound to 316 x 230 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); gold stamped frame; bright orange doublure; red and yellow chevron endbands.

Layout

Written in 11 long lines.

Decoration

Polychrome and gold dual-page illumination (f. 1v-2r); numerous marginal medallions in gold and blue with polychrome flowers and blue foliate finials mark text divisions; sūrah headers in red ink framed by rectangles with foliate motifs on either end chiefly in blue and gold with small, polychrome flowers; gold roundels with orange, blue and green dots mark verse endings; textblock border-ruled in dark blue and gold.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Mayer Sulzberger to the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on library bookplate, inside front cover).
   
• Had been given in waqf (pious endowment) by the the Grand Vizier (al-Vazīr al-Āʻzim), the conquerer of the Island of Crete (Fātiḥ Jazīrat Krīd), Aḥmad Pāshā, possibly Melek Ahmed Pasha (approximately 1604-1662); the name of the mosque to which the manuscript was given is scrubbed (f. 1r). Numerous waqf stamps with the name Pīr Valī Muḥammad Pāshā and the year 1072 A.H. (1661 or 1662 CE) also appear (f. 121r, 166r, 292r, 318r, 345r, 360r)
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
   

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 17th century
• Qurʼans
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Annotations (Provenance)
• Stamps (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Qurʼān].

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• Inside front cover — Label
• fol. 1r — Waqf statement (partially effaced)
• fol. 1r — Stamp (mostly effaced)
• fol. 1v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 2r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 2v — Example of marginal medallion
• fol. 31v — Example of sūrah heading
• fol. 121r — Stamp (one of several of the same stamp)