Collection ID: 0003 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

al-Qurʼān.
[القرآن]

Other related names

• Usis, Felix, former owner
• Usis, Felix, donor

Call number

BV 60
(Bryn Mawr, PA, Bryn Mawr College Libraries, Special Collections)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1135062114
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/bv_060.html
• https://tricolib.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01TRI_INST:BMC

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Libraries

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1850?

Summary

Copy of most of Juzʼ 8 of the Qurʼān. The text begins with the last two words of verse 112 of al-Anʻām, and ends with the penultimate word of verse 78 of al-Aʻrāf.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

I, 25, i leaves : 263 x 170 (165 x 100) mm bound to 175 x 127 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto (1-12, 12[a]-25).

Support

Paper

Binding

Textblock is detached from binding. Covers are dark brown leather over pasteboard (Type III) with faint blind stamping and frame; marbled endpapers; spine has been reinforced with black textile.

Layout

Written in 7 long lines; border-ruled.

Decoration

Textblock border-ruled in gold and blue; gold florets with orange and blue dots mark verse endings; gold and blue circular or teardrop shaped marginal medallions mark text divisions; sūrah title in gold.

Script

Written in muḥaqqaq in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Felix Usis in 1983; forms part of the Usis Collection.
   

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 18th century
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [al-Qurʼān].

Decorations

• fol. 7r — Marginal medallion
• fol. 12v — Sūrah heading
• fol. 12v — Marginal medallion
• fol. 19v — Marginal medallion