[الجزء الخامس عشر].

[al-Juzʼ al-khāmis ʻashar].

Uniform title
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[Syria or Turkey?], [between 1400 and 1550?]
Description
1 online resource (36 leaves) : paper

Details

Subject(s)
Associated name
Former owner
Summary note
Complete section, containing the bismillāh and first word of 17 to the last word of 18. Folios 9 and 12 are a rewritten inserts in a different hand. A full page illumination seems to have been covered over or transferred by contact to f. 1r; small sections and a shadow are visible.
Notes
  • Arabic.
  • Decoration: Surah titles in gold outlined in black. Gold eight petal rosettes with pink center lined by pink and blue dots mark verse endings.
  • Manuscript codex.
  • One volume of a Qur'ān set, of which RBML holds three volumes under separate shelfmarks; See also MSS Or. 257 and 258.
  • Origin: Item is undated, but perhaps copied in the 15th to the mid-16th century.
  • Script: Written in mamluk style naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
  • Shelfmark: MS Or 256.
  • Title supplied by cataloger.
Location of originals
  • Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  • OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
Source of description
Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.
Binding note
Brown leather with flap; blind-tooled central roundel and wide frame, flap is blind tooled with coordinating design. Doublures are silhouette patterned paper.
Language note
Layout: 5 lines per page.
Provenance
Given as a waqf (charitable endowment) for al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá al-Bakrī (inscription dated 1161/1748, f. 1r).
Source acquisition
Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
Other format(s)
Also available as a digital facsimile.
OCLC
1081298976
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