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

Title

al-Qurʼān.
[القرآن]

Other related names

• Lārndawī, ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥusnī ibn al-Ḥājj ʻAbdī, scribe
  لارندوي، عبد الله الحسني بن الحاج عبدي.
• McClenahan, Jean P., 1908-1994, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1903
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977406952003681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1059578293

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1119 (1708)

Place

Turkey?

Summary

Complete copy of the Qur'ān. This copy also includes a prayer to be said upon completion of the Qur'ān (f. 303v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Errata sheet laid in ("hādhā al-muṣḥaf mukhālif li-al-rasm al-ʻuthmānī").
   

Extent

304 leaves : 170 x 105 (115 x 65) mm bound to 170 x 123 mm

Foliation

First 100 pages numbered by a later hand in purple Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper outer corners. Modern western numeral foliation in pencil added, upper left recto; catchwords on every verso, lower left. References in the record are to modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Dark brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II) and red leather spine; blind stamped mandorla with two pendants and cornerpieces on both covers and flap; gilded red paper onlays with gold tooled pattern and frame; gold tooled pattern on foredge flap. Green paper doublure with green textile foredge hinge doublure.

Layout

15 long lines with border rules.

Decoration

Sūrah titles in white ink, framed in gold and floriated designs; textblock ruled in gold and black; gold roundels with red and blue dots at end of each verse; readings marked in red; text partitions (ḥizb) marked in the margins by polychrome and gold medallions; double page illumination in gold, blue, and red with text on cloudbands in first opening (f. 1v-2r); tailpiece of gold floral design under colophon, which is written on incomplete cloudbands (f. 304r).

Script

Written in naskh using black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Mrs. William McClenahan, likely Jean P., wife of Dr. William U. McClenahan, given to the libraries in 1969 (note in pencil on flyleaf 1v).
   

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Qurʼans
• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — al-Qurʾān.
• fol. 304r — Colophon

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination