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

Title

al-Qurʼān.
[القرآن]

Other related names

• Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923, former owner
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 122
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924371923503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1131862518
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms_122.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1899?

Summary

Complete copy of the Qurʼān, written in several different hands (f. [0]-8; f. 9-17; f. 18-30) on several different types of paper; many leaves repaired; the first 30 leaves are later replacements.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

477 leaves : 222 x 160 (160 x 90) mm bound to 220 x 170 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper center recto (1a-252, 252[a]-476); catchwords every verso lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in brown leather over thick pasteboard with flap (Type II); embossed paper onlays of a central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis, cornerpieces, and triangles between each set of cornerpieces; blind-tooled frame; blue and white chevron pattern endbands.

Layout

Written in 11 long lines.

Decoration

Textblock ruled in double red and blue with page-opening frame-ruled in single blue; rubrications in red; sūrah headings in red; marginal text division markers and rukūʻ markers in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and 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).
   
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• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
   

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 18th century
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Qurʼans
• Full covers
• Onlays (decorative components)
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Islamic bindings (Binding)

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• 1av — [al-Qurʼān].

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• 1ar — Numbers in pencil
• 1ar — Stylized name in ink