Details

Associated name

• Pīr Valī Muḥammad Pāshā, active 1661 [Browse]
• پير ولى محمد پاشا،, active 1661، [Browse]
• Melek Ahmet Paşa, -1662 [Browse]

Former owner

• Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923 [Browse]
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning [Browse]

Summary note

Complete copy of the Qurʼān with a final prayer; border-rules have corroded the paper on some leaves.

Notes

• Binding: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); gold stamped frame; bright orange doublure; red and yellow chevron endbands.
• Decoration: Polychrome and gold dual-page illumination (f. 1v-2r); numerous marginal medallions in gold and blue with polychrome flowers and blue foliate finials mark text divisions; sūrah headers in red ink framed by rectangles with foliate motifs on either end chiefly in blue and gold with small, polychrome flowers; gold roundels with orange, blue and green dots mark verse endings; textblock border-ruled in dark blue and gold.
• Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
• Layout: Written in 11 long lines.
• Origin: The item is undated, a waqf stamp places it before 1661 CE (f. 121r)
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Waqf note, partially scrubbed (f. 1r); stamp (f. 1r); stamp is repeated throughout, often effaced but occasionally visible (see f. 121r, 166r, 292r, 318r, 345r, 360r).

Location of originals

• Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
• Had been given in waqf (pious endowment) by the the Grand Vizier (al-Vazīr al-Āʻzim), the conquerer of the Island of Crete (Fātiḥ Jazīrat Krīd), Aḥmad Pāshā, possibly Melek Ahmed Pasha (approximately 1604-1662); the name of the mosque to which the manuscript was given is scrubbed (f. 1r). Numerous waqf stamps with the name Pīr Valī Muḥammad Pāshā and the year 1072 A.H. (1661 or 1662 CE) also appear (f. 121r, 166r, 292r, 318r, 345r, 360r)

Source acquisition

Gift of Mayer Sulzberger to the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on library bookplate, inside front cover).

Cite as

CAJS Rar Ms 121

OCLC

1150882887

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