Details

Scribe

• Ḥanāshī, Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad [Browse]

Former owner

• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning [Browse]
• Universität Wien. Orientalisches Institut [Browse]

Notes

• Binding: 19th- or 20th-century quarter leather with spine title Koran.
• 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.
• Decoration: Some marginal medallions in red, green and yellow; illuminated text division in red, green, yellow (pages [293], [426], [522], [576])
• Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.
• Layout: Written in 15 lines.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: Copy completed by Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻImād? al-Ḥanāshī (pages [598]), possibly in the 17th or 18th century.
• Script: Written in naskh script; vocalization in red ink.
• Title supplied by cataloger.

Location of originals

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

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

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

Cite as

CAJS Rar Ms 280

OCLC

954274568

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