Help us plan the future of OPenn! We want to learn more about our users, your motivations, research projects and goals, and we want to hear from you. Please fill out this brief survey. It should take only 3-5 minutes of your time and will be invaluable to us. — The OPenn Team

Collection ID: 0012 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

961.F.5d Qurʼan. Sūrat al-ikhlāṣ / قرآن. سورة الإخلاص

Title

Qurʼan. Sūrat al-ikhlāṣ / قرآن. سورة الإخلاص

Other related names

DuSimitiere, Pierre Eugene, ca. 1736-1784, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/95802241)

Funders

Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

961.F.5d
(Philadelphia, United States, Library Company, Library Company, Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| DuSimitiere)

Publisher

Library Company

Language

Arabic; English

Origin

According to a note on the recto: "the above was written in my presence by a negro m[a]nding[o] at Leoganne in January 1773 DuSimitiere"; written in January 1773

Place: Léogâne (now Haiti)

Summary

A copy of Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ (112) written on one line. The spelling is largely phonetic.

Notes

Title supplied by cataloger.
DuSimitiere, a Swiss-born historian, antiquarian, and artist, traveled and documented North America and the West Indies from the 1750s to 1770s. He settled in Philadelphia in 1774, and in 1782 opened the American Museum, which contained his collected antiquities.

Extent

1 leaf; 60 x 290 mm

Support

Paper

Layout

Single long line in Arabic with a note in English underneath.

Script

West African maghribī script in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

Purchase at auction, DuSimitiere's American Museum, March 10, 1785.

Subjects topical

Qurʼan
Mandingo (African people) -- Religion
Haiti
Haiti -- Leoganne

Genres

Qurʼans

Keywords

Qurʼan
Mandingo
Arabic
Paper

Licenses

Text

These images and the content of Library Company 961.F.5d: Qurʼan. Sūrat al-ikhlāṣ / قرآن. سورة الإخلاص 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/
Text

To the extent possible under law, The Library Company of Philadelphia has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Library Company 961.F.5d: Qurʼan. Sūrat al-ikhlāṣ / قرآن. سورة الإخلاص. 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

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

fol. 1r — Qurʼān. Sūrat al-ikhlās

Images

fol. 1r
9821_0000.tif (126.7 MB)
9821_0000_thumb.jpg (2.6 KB)
9821_0000_web.jpg (111.7 KB)
Section: Qurʼān. Sūrat al-ikhlās