[القرآن].

[al-Qurʼān].

Uniform title
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[Turkey?], 1809
Description
1 online resource (iii, 294, iii leaves) : laid paper, illuminations

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Notes
  • Decoration: Double page illuminated first opening in blue and gold with red and blue finials and text on cloudbands (f. 1v-2r); gold, slightly lobed circular medallions divided into six sections mark verse endings; medallions of gold, light blue, and red in several shapes including teardrop, sun, and star-shape in the margins mark section divisions; sūrah headings are white ink on a gold cartouche with foliate fill around the ends in gold and red; readings in red.
  • Layout: 15 lines per page.
  • Manuscript codex.
  • Origin: Copy completed on 11 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 1224 AH (12 July 1809) by Muṣṭafá Rifqī, a student of al-Sayyid ʻUthmān, al-maʻrūf bi-Dāmād Ibrāhīm al-ʻAfīf (f. 294r).
  • Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
  • Shelfmark: MS Or 416.
  • 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 over pasteboard with flap (detached); gold-tooled diaper grid of squares made of double arrow patterns with central dots surround by a double frame; bright yellow embossed paper doublure.
Language note
Arabic.
Source acquisition
Gift of Harry G. Friedman (library donation bookplate inside front cover).
Other format(s)
Also available as a digital facsimile.
OCLC
1108337665
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