Collection ID: 0006 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

al-Qurʼān.
القرآن

Authors

• J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College)

Other related names

• Sunbulī, Quṭb ibn Munajjid, active approximately 1800, scribe
  سنبلي، قطب بن منجد،
• Harris, J. Rendel 1852-1941, former owner

Call number

Rendel Harris 34
(Haverford, Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections, Rendel Harris)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9910189397944049
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1113868043
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0006/html/harris_034.html
• https://www.haverford.edu/library

Publisher

Haverford College

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1800 and1850?

Place

Turkey?

Summary

Miniature, octagonal Qurʼān, nearly complete, likely used as an amulet. The leaves were probably numbered when the copy was out of order; then it was rebound in the correct order, causing the foliation to be out of sequence. The first two leaves are missing, the text starts with verse 19 of al-Baqarah (2:19).

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from colophon (f. 249v).
   

Extent

248 leaves : 70 x 70 (55 x 55) 70 x 70

Foliation

Contemporary foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals in ink, in the following sequence: 3-97, 121-122, 113-120, 110-112, 123-145, 98-109, 146-249.

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Brown leather over card with gilt-stamped diaper grid and frame; painted grid with floral designs in the center on the pastedowns.

Layout

19 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red including sūrah titles; readings in red; verse ending marked by a red dot.

Script

Written in naskh; pointed, vocalized.

Subjects topical

• Amulets

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 19th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Amulets
• Qurʼans

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 3r — al-Qurʼān.