[al-Qurʼān]

Abstract:

Copy of the Qur'ān; missing first folio, begins with Sūrat al-Baqarah (The Cow) 1 (2:1). Instructions for how much to read from the Qur'ān every day of the week written in modern script in pink ink on lined paper pasted onto f. 238v and the inside back cover.

Date:

1654

Identifier:

9977406951903681; (OCoLC)1059578491; (OCoLC)on1059578491

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Gift of Gordon A. Block, Jr. (bookplate inside upper cover), 1966.

Publisher:

Malta, A.H. 1065 (1654)

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn) http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/mscodex1904.html

Subject:

Qurʼans.; Illuminations (painting); Codices (bound manuscripts); Manuscripts, Arabic -- 17th century.

Resource Type:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

238 leaves : paper, illuminations; 87 x 86 (63 x 57) mm bound to 87 x 92 mm.

Personal Name:

Block, Gordon A., Jr., 1914-1973, former owner.; Fāsī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir, scribe.

Rights:

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

Notes:

Decoration: Polychrome decoration in red, yellow, blue; sūrah titles in flaking gold over yellow with outside margin medallion in gold and red or blue; yellow roundels at end of each verse; vocalizations marked in red; other small dots of yellow, red, and blue throughout the text; text divisions marked in red in the margin, sometimes with gold flake decoration. Two polychrome decorative headers (f. 50r, 172v). Colophon framed in red and yellow border with braided pattern and marginal medallion (f. 238r).; Formerly housed in a box labeled "al-Qurʻān Arabic MS. in Kufic III Century A.H." with "7 Cent. A.D." added in pencil.; Ms. codex.; A number of leaves have been repaired.; Origin: Copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Fāsī and completed on 16 Muḥarram 1065 A.H (November 26, 1654) on Malta (f. 238r).; Title supplied by cataloger.; Foliation: Western numeral foliation in pencil added, upper left recto; no catchwords.; Layout: 15 long lines.; Script: Written in maghribi using brown ink; pointed, vocalized.; Binding: Brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II) with carrying case with flap. Outside covers blind stamped with mandorla with floral design, cornerpieces and frame; flap blind stamped with cornerpieces and partial frame. Slip case has matching blind stamped patterns on the front. Doublure is pinkish paper cut in a zigzag along the outer edge. Endbands in yellow and blue thread with a chevron pattern.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Ms. Codex 1904