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

Title

Kitāb Qiṣṣat Sayyidinā Yūsuf.
كتاب قصة سيدنا يوسف

Other related names

• Ṭarābulusī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj Mūsá, al-ʻAṭṭār, former owner
• Ḥamawī, Muṣṭafá́ Karīmī, former owner
  حموي، مصطفى كريمي.
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, donor
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 136
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9944235463503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/276878148
• https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms136.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

17--?

Summary

Story of Joseph based on the Qurʼān sūrah 12 and embroidered with stories and verses of a devotional nature. Divided into sections by the word faṣl, stories are preceded by the word ḥikāyah and the verses by shiʻr. Occasional marginal notes in a different hand. Copy ends abruptly.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r)
   

Watermark

Crown-star-crescent.

Extent

93 leaves : 205 x 140 (155 x 95) mm bound to 205 x 150 mm

Foliation

Foliation in ink in Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper left recto. Pagination also in ink in Hindu-Arabic numerals on f. [1]v through f. 45r.

Support

Paper

Binding

Textblock detached from binding, of which only one blind-stamped leather board and spine remain; board is stamped with central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis. Housed with a paper envelope with printed address of Dropsie College and ms. inscriptions in Roman and Arabic scripts identifying contents and donor.

Layout

Written in 15 long lines in black and red ink, with marginalia. Catchwords at the end of every leaf.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; quotations are vocalised and in quotation marks, which are written in red ink.

Provenance

• Gift of John Frederick Lewis to the Library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (inscription, envelope housing).
   
• Formerly owned by Muṣṭafá Karīmī al-Ḥamawī. It ended up in his possession on 12 Shaʻbān 1159 (30 August, 1746) from its previous owner al-Ḥājj Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj Mūsá, al-ʻAṭṭār al-Ṭarābulusī (note, f. 1r).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis (inscription, envelope housing).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (inscription, envelope housing).
   

Subjects topical

• Joseph--(Son of Jacob)--Islamic interpretations
• Joseph--(Son of Jacob)
• Qur'an stories
• Joseph (Son of Jacob) in the Qurʼan

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Unnumbered recto — Kitāb Qiṣṣat Sayyidinā Yūsuf