Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Manuscripts [Browse]

Scribe

• Jūdī, ʻUmar, active 1754 [Browse]
• جودي، عمر،, active 1754، [Browse]

Former owner

• Usis, Felix [Browse]

Donor

• Usis, Felix [Browse]

Summary note

Nearly complete copy of the Qurʼān, the first two folios are missing, so the text begins with verse 17 of al-Baqarah and one folio is missing from the end, so the last complete sūrah is al-Māʻūn.

Notes

• Binding: Bound in reddish leather over pasteboard with flap that does not match the depth of the textblock (Type II); covers with stamped paper onlay central mandorla and cornerpieces; blind tooled pendants on the vertical axis. Flap design matches cover design. Plain paper pastedowns.
• Decoration: Textblock border-ruled in gold; floral marginal medallions mark text divisions; sūrah titles in white ink on gold bars; black ink roundels with gold, red and blue dots mark verse endings; readings in red. Finispiece in bright colors contains colophon.
• Layout: Written in 15 long lines; border-ruled.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Copy completed in 1168 A.H. (1754 or 1755 C.E.) by ʻUmar al-Jūdī, al-maʻrūf al-Hājj Muḥammad al-Ḥamdī bi-Kūtāhī (pages 601).
• Pagination: Pagination was added by a later hand in two different styles in black ink and in blue wax pencil (pages 3-134); continuing pagination added in pencil every other page, upper left recto (135-601).
• 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 Felix Usis in 1983.

Cite as

Bryn Mawr College Libraries BV 52

OCLC

1135061985

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