Koran.

Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[1342-1343]
Description
1 online resource (299 leaves) : paper

Details

Scribe
Former owner
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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