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

Title

al-Juzʼ al-thāmin min al-rabʻah al-sharīfah.
الجزء الثامن من الربعة الشريفة

Other related names

• Aytmish al-Bajasī, Amīr, -1400, former owner
  ايتمش البجسي،
• Rosenbach, A. S. W. 1876-1952, former owner
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 123
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924371933503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1131863585
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms_123.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1400 and 1499?

Place

Egypt?

Summary

Illuminated copy of the 8th section of the Qurʼān.

Notes

• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Laid, non-European paper; visible chain lines in sets of two.
   
• Donation (waqf) statement added to title page inside title piece (f. 1r)
   

Extent

50 leaves : 370 x 260 (250 x 160) mm bound to 372 x 260 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; no catchwords.

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown leather over pasteboard with detached flap (Type II); front and back cover have an intricate mosaic-style blind- and gold-tooled pattern on a large, circular, lobed central medallion, cornerpieces, and frame; flap is gold and blind-tooled in a coordinating pattern with a circular medallion and frame; doublures are block-stamped leather.

Layout

Written in 5 long lines.

Decoration

Illuminated title piece in gold and blue (f. 1r); marginal medallions for text divsions in circle, teardrop, and pointed oval shapes in blue, red and gold with blue finials; verse endings marked by an 8-leaf rosette with blue dots around the edge; some alifs in red; sūrah heading in thuluth script set into a blue oval with gold foliate fill all set into a larger rectangle lined with geometric pattern in gold (f. 22r).

Script

Written in muḥaqqaq in black ink; pointed and vocalized; titles in thuluth.

Provenance

• Gift of A. S. W. Rosenbach 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 Mamlūk Amīr Aytmish al-Bajasī (d. 1400 CE) and given as an endowment (waqf) to the library attached to the mosque he founded in Bāb al-Wazīr, Cairo (founded 1383 CE) (inscription, f. 1r).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate, inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 15th century
• Qurʼans
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts
• Specimens
• Full covers
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Block-stamped leather
• Islamic bindings (Binding)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — al-Juzʼ al-thāmin min al-rabʻah al-sharīfah.
• Loose leaf recto — Description of manuscript (inaccurate)

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• fol. 1r — Waqf statement
• fol. 1r — Illuminated titlepiece
• fol. 3r — Example of 5 verse marker
• fol. 4v — Example of 10 verse marker
• fol. 7r — Example of rubʿ ḥizb marker
• fol. 11v — Example of niṣf ḥizb marker
• fol. 22r — Illuminated sūrah heading