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

Title

al-Qurʼān.
[القرآن]

Other related names

• Block, Gordon A., Jr., 1914-1973, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1907
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977459940203681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1083523134

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1700? and 1723

Summary

Small, complete copy of the Qur'ān in very good condition.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

224 leaves : 113 x 70 (85 x 41) mm bound to 116 x 75 mm

Foliation

Western numeral foliation in pencil added, upper left recto; catchwords on verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown leather over pasteboard (Type III). Outside covers have gilt stamped frame, mostly effaced. Doublure in thin, reddish leather. Endbands in purple and white thread with a chevron pattern.

Layout

20 long lines, border-ruled.

Decoration

Polychrome decoration in vivid red, blue, and gold. Dual-page illumination with knotwork design text border and page frame on first opening (f. 1v-2r). Sūrah titles in red on gold background with red and blue accents; gold diamonds with red crosses mark verse endings; polychrome medallions in the margins mark text divisions (juzʼ). The entire text is written in the suggestion of cloudbands, gold between each line. Textblock has double border-rules in gold and black; page opening is framed in black.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized. A few marginal notes in nastaʻliq in black ink.

Provenance

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

Genres

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Qurʼān]

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 5v — Example of marginal medallion
• fol. 19r — Example of illuminated sūrah heading