Details

Subject(s)

• Islam—Prayers and devotions [Browse]

Scribe

• Kūtāhī, Muṣṭafá, active 1771 [Browse]
• كوتاهي، مصطفى، active 1771، [Browse]

Donor

• Kohn, Blanche Wolf [Browse]

Summary note

Devotional book containing selections from the Qurʼān, several illuminated seals (muhr) and calligraphic drawings with the names of God, the Prophet Muḥammad, other Imams and family members; three blank pages at the end have been prepared for drawing but left unfilled (f. 69v-70v).

Notes

• A letter dated November 1, 1923 to Edwin Wolf from Cyrus Adler of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning describing the manuscript is laid inches.
• Binding: Bound in paper with large, gilded flower and frame; remnants of a red spine.
• Decoration: All pages have gold, foliate marginal fill; textblock is border-ruled in a wide gold band with a repeating geometric pattern in black and a narrow, red outside rule. Illuminated headpiece in gold with red, blue, and green on first opening (f. 1v); all section titles are in white ink on a gold background outlined in a colored box. Polychrome floral medallions in the margins and gold, lobed circles with orange and blue dots mark verse endings. 16 pages of illuminations and illustrations (f. 61v-69r).
• Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
• Layout: Written in 9 long lines; border-ruled.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Copied in 1158 A.H. (1771 or 1772 C.E.) by Muṣṭafá al-maʻrūf bi-Kūtāhī (f. 60r).
• Script: Written in naskh 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 Blanche Wolf Kohn, Bryn Mawr College 1908, on 2 June 1958.

Publications about

Gruber, Christiane. The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana Univerisity Press, 2019; pages 252 one reproduced image.

Cite as

Bryn Mawr College Libraries BV 53

Other title(s)

Qurʼan. Selections

OCLC

1135061961

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