[al-Qurʼān].

Abstract:

Nearly complete copy of the Qur'ān. Sūrat al-Layl is missing, though the heading is there as are some of the verse-end decorations (f. 297v).

Date:

1842

Identifier:

9977406952303681; (OCoLC)1059578469; (OCoLC)on1059578469

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Swarthmore College, given to the University of Pennsylvania in 1967 (note in pencil inside front cover).

Publisher:

[Turkey?], A.H. 1258? (1842)

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn) http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscodex1901.html

Subject:

Manuscripts, Arabic -- 19th century.; Qurʼans.; Codices (bound manuscripts); Illuminations (painting)

Resource Type:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

301 leaves : paper, illuminations; 160 x 105 (102 x 52) mm bound to 162 x 115 mm.

Personal Name:

Ṣidqī, Khalīl, scribe.

Corporate Name:

Swarthmore College, donor.; Swarthmore College, former owner.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Layout: 15 long lines with border rules.; Origin: Copied by al-Sayyid al-Hājj Khalīl al-Ṣidqī, one of Ismāʻīl Zuhrī's students. The copy was likely completed in 1258 (1842), though date is somewhat effaced, probably in Turkey (f. 301v).; Ms. codex.; Decoration: Sūrah titles in white ink, framed in gold; textblock ruled in gold, black, red; gold roundels at end of each verse; readings marked in red; text partitions (juzʼ) noted in the margins in purple by a later hand; double page illumination in gold, pink, blue, orange with text on cloudbands in first opening (f. 1v-2r).; Script: Written in naskh using black ink; pointed, vocalized.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Foliation: Western numeral foliation in pencil added on every 25th leaf, upper left recto; catchwords on every verso, lower left.; Binding: Brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); stamped with floriated central design and frame on both covers and flap; embossed bright orange paper doublure with dark green textile foredge flap lining.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Ms. Codex 1901