Koran

Contributor:

Ḥanāshī, Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad (scribe); Universität Wien. Orientalisches Institut (former owner); Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (former owner)

Date:

1342

Description:

Copy of the Qurʼān.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly in the collection of the Orientalisches Institut (founded in 1886), Universität Wien (label, right cover).; Formerly in the collection of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on label, right cover).

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms280.html

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Medieval; Codices; Qur'ans; Paper; Naskhī; Codices (bound manuscripts); Illuminations (painting); manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

299 leaves : paper, illuminations; 230 x 160 (180 x 100) mm bound to 240 x 180 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Collation: Paper, 298 leaves; [596-1], modern pagination in reverse order. Mostly gatherings of 20 leaves, with some 18 or 22; at least 3 leaves missing.; Layout: Written in 15 lines.; Script: Written in naskh script; vocalization in red ink.; Decoration: Some marginal medallions in red, green and yellow; illuminated text division in red, green, yellow (p. [293], [426], [522], [576]); Binding: 19th- or 20th-century quarter leather with spine title Koran.; Origin: Copy completed by Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻImād? al-Ḥanāshī (p. [598]), possibly in the 17th or 18th century.; Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 280