BV 70 al-Qurʼān. / [القرآن]
Title
al-Qurʼān.[القرآن]
Other related names
- Mali, Katharine Strauss, donor
Call number
BV 70(Bryn Mawr, PA, Bryn Mawr College Libraries, Special Collections)
Alternate identifiers
Publisher
Bryn Mawr College LibrariesLanguage
ArabicOrigin
Item is undated, but likely copied in the late 18th or 19th century.
- Date
- between 1775 and 1850?
Summary
Complete copy of the Qurʼān; two pages at the front detached (f. 1-2).
Notes
- Manuscript codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- A short prayer written in red on machine-made paper is laid in.
Extent
I, 303, i leaves : 175 x 120 (108 x 54) mm bound to 175 x 127 mmFoliation
Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.Support
PaperBinding
Bound in dark red leather over pasteboard with flap that does not fit the textblock (Type II); fading gilt and red stamped paper onlays of central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces.Layout
Decoration
Dual-page illuminated first opening in gold, blue, green, and yellow with red and blue radiant finials in the margins (f. 1v-2r); textblock border-ruled in gold, black and red; gold roundels mark verse ends; sūrah beginnings set off by gold bar across the textblock; readings and text partition markers in red; floral marginal medallions in sets of two colors (orange and blue, or green and pink) also appear.
Script
Provenance
- Gift of Katharine Strauss Mali, Bryn Mawr College 1923, on 15 March 1956.
Genres
- Manuscripts, Arabic
- Manuscripts, 18th century
- Manuscripts, 19th century
- Codices (bound manuscripts)
- Manuscripts (documents)
- Illuminations (painting)
- Envelope flaps (features)
- Onlays (decorative components)
Licenses
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- Text
- These images and the content of Special Collections BV 70: al-Qurʼān. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.
- URL
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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- Text
- To the extent possible under law, Bryn Mawr College, Special Collections has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Special Collections BV 70: al-Qurʼān.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.
- URL
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Section: [al-Qurʼān].
Decoration: Dual-page illuminated opening

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Decoration: Dual-page illuminated opening

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Decoration: Example of marginal medallion

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