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

Ms. Roll 1965 al-Qurʼān. / [القرآن]

Title

al-Qurʼān.
[القرآن]

Authors

Call number

Ms. Roll 1965
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Item is not dated, but likely make in the second half of the 20th century.
Date
after 1950?

Summary

Selections from the Qurʼān on a narrow, paper scroll. Lithographed rather than written, though decoration is by hand. The following verses are included: al-Fātiḥah, al-Baqarah (1-34), Āl-ʻImrān (1-31), Ṭā Ḥā (1-47), Yā Sīn (1-24), al-Mulk (1-21), al-Ikhlāṣ, al-Falaq, al-Nās.

Notes

Extent

5 leaves : 145 x 5 cm

Support

Paper

Binding

Cover made of a thin piece of brown leather attached to the top leaf, with no way to attach the ends.

Layout

  • 3 lines per centimeter for text areas.
  • Decoration

    Simple illuminated rectangular panels composed of red, green, and blue triangles together.

    Script

  • Informal naskh in black ink, pointed, unvocalized.
  • Provenance

    Genres

    Licenses

    Images


    Outside cover closed, top
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    Outside cover closed, bottom
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    Right side, rolled
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    Left side, rolled
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    Inside cover, fully open
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    Leaf 1 recto
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    Leaf 2 recto
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    Leaf 3 recto
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    Leaf 4 recto
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    Leaf 5 recto
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    Outside cover, fully open
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    Leaf 1 verso
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    Leaf 2 verso
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    Leaf 3 verso
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    Leaf 4 verso
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    Leaf 5 verso
    7097_0015.tif (50.4 MB)
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