Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Manuscripts [Browse]

Former owner

• Usis, Felix [Browse]

Donor

• Usis, Felix [Browse]

Summary note

Copy of most of Juzʼ 8 of the Qurʼān. The text begins with the last two words of verse 112 of al-Anʻām, and ends with the penultimate word of verse 78 of al-Aʻrāf.

Notes

• Binding: Textblock is detached from binding. Covers are dark brown leather over pasteboard (Type III) with faint blind stamping and frame; marbled endpapers; spine has been reinforced with black textile.
• Decoration: Textblock border-ruled in gold and blue; gold florets with orange and blue dots mark verse endings; gold and blue circular or teardrop shaped marginal medallions mark text divisions; sūrah title in gold.
• Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto (1-12, 12[a]-25).
• Layout: Written in 7 long lines; border-ruled.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Item is undated, but likely copied in the 18th or 19th century.
• Script: Written in muḥaqqaq in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
• Title supplied by cataloger.

Location of originals

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

Language note

Arabic.

Source acquisition

Gift of Felix Usis in 1983; forms part of the Usis Collection.

Cite as

Bryn Mawr College Libraries BV 60

OCLC

1135062114

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