Details

Subject(s)

• Amulets [Browse]

Scribe

• Sunbulī, Quṭb ibn Munajjid, active approximately 1800 [Browse]
• سنبلي، قطب بن منجد،, active approximately 1800 [Browse]

Former owner

• Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel), 1852-1941 [Browse]

Related name

• J. Rendel Harris Collection (Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College). [Browse]

Summary note

Miniature, octagonal Qurʼān, nearly complete, likely used as an amulet. The leaves were probably numbered when the copy was out of order; then it was rebound in the correct order, causing the foliation to be out of sequence. The first two leaves are missing, the text starts with verse 19 of al-Baqarah (2:19).

Notes

• Binding: Brown leather over card with gilt-stamped diaper grid and frame; painted grid with floral designs in the center on the pastedowns.
• Decoration: Rubrications in red including sūrah titles; readings in red; verse ending marked by a red dot.
• Foliation: Contemporary foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals in ink, in the following sequence: 3-97, 121-122, 113-120, 110-112, 123-145, 98-109, 146-249.
• Layout: 19 long lines.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: The colophon is unclear in several places, but the copy was completed in Rajab, perhaps in the year 1220? A.H. by Quṭb ibn Munajjid? Sunbulī?. This is the 40th copy of the Qurʼān that this scribe has produced (f. 249v).
• Script: Written in ghubar; pointed, vocalized.
• Title from colophon (f. 249v).

Location of originals

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

Language note

Arabic.

Cite as

Haverford College, Quaker and Special Collections manuscripts RH 34

OCLC

1113868043

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