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Title

al-Juzʼ al-thalāthūn min al-rabʻah al-sharīfah
الجزء الثلاثون من الربعة الشريفة

Other related names

• Iṣfahānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, active 1387, scribe
  اصفهاني، احمد بن علي،
• Andalaft, Dimitri, bookseller

Call number

Penn Museum NEP80
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977571453303681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1112670311
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0016/html/NEP80.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

789 A.H. (1387)

Place

Cairo, Egypt

Summary

Illuminated copy of the 30th, and final, section of the Qurʼān; begins with al-Nabāʻ (78); the pages have been trimmed.

Notes

• Title from caption title (p. 1).
   
• Dimensions of original manuscript: 405 x 295 (315 x 210) mm bound to 320 x 220 mm.
   
• Laid, non-European paper; occasionally visible chain lines.
   
• Mostly effaced stamp, possibly a madrasah inventory stamp (p. [1], 41); note with many errors recording a partial ḥadīth and dated 1246 (A.H.) (p. 43), note under the frontispiece in the same hand and referring to the same topic as end note (p. [1]).
   

Extent

1 online resource (i, 23 paginated leaves) :

Foliation

Modern pagination in pencil added, upper outer corners ([1]-9, 11-45) ; no catchwords.

Support

Illuminations.

Binding

Textblock is detached from the covers, which are brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); front and back cover have an intricate mosaic-style blind- and gold-tooled pattern on a large, circular, lobed central medallion, cornerpieces, and frame; flap is gold and blind-tooled vine patterns with frame and a gold-tooled medallion on the inside; doublures are block-stamped leather with purple paper hinges (now torn) stamp painted with a black and yellow pattern.

Layout

Written in 11 long lines, 3 large lines with two sets of 4 smaller lines in between.

Decoration

Illuminated frontispiece in gold, blue and black; blue cartouches with titles in white with gold flowers surrounding the text stand above and below an empty, multifoil, central medallion set into a square; the medallion is outlined by two continuous, intersecting strips, the spandrels of which are filled with a floral design of white, green, pink and gold; wide, gold rules with a chain design line each section of the page; three gold medallions along the outer edge (p. [1]). Dual-page illuminated first opening with the textblock border-ruled in wide gold with geometric designs, the text in contoured bands with flowers and vines in blue, green and gold in-fill; title in white on a blue background rectangle, lined in the same wide gold (p. 2-3). Sūrah titles in gold. Gold roundels divided into 10 sections and outlined in blue and red dots mark verse endings. Gold, circular, marginal medallions with blue outline and finials mark the 5th and 10th verses. Notations in gold (often partially trimmed) mark the text divisions and prostrations. Colophon outlined in the same wide gold band with geometric patterns and written on contour bands with light, crosshatch in-fill.

Script

Written in muḥaqqaq (large lines), thuluth (sūrah titles) and naskh (small lines) in black ink; pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

• Purchased from Dimitri Andalaft in 1924
   

Subjects topical

• Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens

Genres

• Fascimiles
• Qurʼans
• Illuminations (painting)
• Notes (documents)
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Full covers
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Block-stamped leather
• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 14th century

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• 1 — al-Juzʼ al-thalāthūn min al-rabʻah al-sharīfah
• 41 — Colophon part 1
• 42 — Colophon part 2

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 recto — Notations
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notations
• 1 — Illuminated frontispiece
• 1 — Notations
• 1 — Effaced stamp
• 2 — Illuminated headpiece and border
• 2 — Contour bands
• 2 — Floral fill
• 3 — Illuminated borders
• 3 — Contour bands
• 3 — Floral fill
• 4 — Examples of verse count marginal medallions
• 5 — Example of sūrah heading
• 6 — Example of ḥizb marker (partially trimmed)
• 17 — Example of sajdah marker
• 41 — Illuminated border
• 41 — Illuminated vignette
• 41 — Effaced stamp
• 42 — Illuminated border
• 42 — Illuminated vignette
• 43 — Notations
• 44 — Notations