[al-Qurʼān].

Abstract:

Complete copy of the Qur'ān. This copy also includes a prayer to be said upon completion of the Qur'ān (f. 303v).

Date:

1708

Identifier:

9977406952003681; (OCoLC)1059578293; (OCoLC)on1059578293

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Mrs. William McClenahan, likely Jean P., wife of Dr. William U. McClenahan, given to the libraries in 1969 (note in pencil on flyleaf 1v).

Publisher:

[Turkey?], A.H. 1119 (1708)

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn) http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscodex1903.html

Subject:

Qurʼans.; illuminations (paintings); codices (bound manuscripts); Manuscripts, Arabic -- 18th century.

Resource Type:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

304 leaves : paper, illuminations; 170 x 105 (115 x 65) mm bound to 170 x 123 mm.

Personal Name:

McClenahan, Jean P., 1908-1994, former owner.; Lārndawī, ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥusnī ibn al-Ḥājj ʻAbdī, scribe.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Script: Written in naskh using black ink; pointed, vocalized.; Origin: Copied in A.H. 1119 (1708) by ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥusnī ibn al-Ḥājj ʻAbdī al-Lārndawī (f. 304r).; Ms. codex.; Errata sheet laid in ("hādhā al-muṣḥaf mukhālif li-al-rasm al-ʻuthmānī").; Decoration: Sūrah titles in white ink, framed in gold and floriated designs; textblock ruled in gold and black; gold roundels with red and blue dots at end of each verse; readings marked in red; text partitions (ḥizb) marked in the margins by polychrome and gold medallions; double page illumination in gold, blue, and red with text on cloudbands in first opening (f. 1v-2r); tailpiece of gold floral design under colophon, which is written on incomplete cloudbands (f. 304r).; Title supplied by cataloger.; Foliation: First 100 pages numbered by a later hand in purple Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper outer corners. Modern western numeral foliation in pencil added, upper left recto; catchwords on every verso, lower left. References in the record are to modern foliation.; Layout: 15 long lines with border rules.; Binding: Dark brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II) and red leather spine; blind stamped mandorla with two pendants and cornerpieces on both covers and flap; gilded red paper onlays with gold tooled pattern and frame; gold tooled pattern on foredge flap. Green paper doublure with green textile foredge hinge doublure.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Ms. Codex 1903