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

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

• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1135062184
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/bv_070.html
• https://tricolib.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01TRI_INST:BMC

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Libraries

Language

Arabic

Origin

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 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

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

Written in 15 long lines; border-ruled.

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

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

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

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Qurʼān].

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 2r — Dual-page illuminated opening
• fol. 12r — Example of marginal medallion
• fol. 39v — Example of text divider