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

Title

al-Qurʼān.
[القرآن]

Other related names

• Bloomsbury Auctions (Firm), seller

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 2047
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977882251203681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1237600119
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscodex2047.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1899?

Place

Indonesia?

Summary

Complete copy of the Qur'ān with three sets of dual-page illuminated page surrounds. One page is copied twice, once upside down with a mostly blank facing page; there is no text missing.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

333, ii leaves : 291 x 183 (215 x 115) mm bound to 287 x 210 mm

Foliation

Unfoliated; catchwords on every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown leather over pasteboard with flap on the front cover (Type II); stamped with blind stamped central mandorla, pendants, cornerpieces, frame, and border; plain paper doublure.

Layout

Written in 15 long lines with border rules.

Decoration

Sūrah titles in red ink, framed in gold; textblock ruled in two lines and red and one of black; gold roundels at end of each verse; readings marked in red; text partitions noted in the margins in red; double page illuminated text surrounds in red, white and black (f. [1]v-[2]r, [168]v-[169]r, [332]v-[333]r).

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Purchased from Bloomsbury, Friday 30 October 2020, lot 84.
   

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscrtipts, 19th century
• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Qur'ans

Licenses

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