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

Title

al-Qurʼān
[القرآن]

Other related names

• Fāsī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir, scribe
  فاسي، محمد بن عبد الواحد بن عبد القادر.
• Block, Gordon A., Jr., 1914-1973, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1904
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977406951903681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1059578491

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1065 (1654)

Place

Malta

Summary

Copy of the Qur'ān; missing first folio, begins with Sūrat al-Baqarah (The Cow) 1 (2:1). Instructions for how much to read from the Qur'ān every day of the week written in modern script in pink ink on lined paper pasted onto f. 238v and the inside back cover.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• A number of leaves have been repaired.
   
• Formerly housed in a box labeled "al-Qurʻān Arabic MS. in Kufic III Century A.H." with "7 Cent. A.D." added in pencil.
   

Extent

238 leaves : 87 x 86 (63 x 57) mm bound to 87 x 92 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II) with carrying case with flap. Outside covers blind stamped with mandorla with floral design, cornerpieces and frame; flap blind stamped with cornerpieces and partial frame. Slip case has matching blind stamped patterns on the front. Doublure is pinkish paper cut in a zigzag along the outer edge. Endbands in yellow and blue thread with a chevron pattern.

Layout

15 long lines.

Decoration

Polychrome decoration in red, yellow, blue; sūrah titles in flaking gold over yellow with outside margin medallion in gold and red or blue; yellow roundels at end of each verse; vocalizations marked in red; other small dots of yellow, red, and blue throughout the text; text divisions marked in red in the margin, sometimes with gold flake decoration. Two polychrome decorative headers (f. 50r, 172v). Colophon framed in red and yellow border with braided pattern and marginal medallion (f. 238r).

Script

Written in maghribi using brown ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Gordon A. Block, Jr. (bookplate inside upper cover), 1966.
   

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Qurʼans
• Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — al-Qurʾān.
• fol. 238r — Colophon

Decorations

• fol. 13r — Example of gold and red sūrah heading
• fol. 50r — Example of illuminated sūrah heading
• fol. 238r — Decorative frame