Details

Former owner

• Camac, William, 1829-1900 [Browse]

Summary note

Small copy of the Qur'ān; complete except for first folio and covers; begins with Sūrat al-Baqarah (The Cow) 1 (2:1).

Notes

• Binding: Covers are missing; spine is dark brown leather.
• Decoration: Sūrah titles rubricated and framed in gold; textblock ruled in gold, black, blue; page openings framed in gold and black rules; gold roundels at end of each verse; text partitions noted in red in the margins; first opening shows half of a double page illumination in gold, red, blue with text on cloudbands (f. 1r).
• First folio missing; would have held Sūrat al-Fātiḥah (The Opening).
• Foliation: Western numeral foliation in pencil added, upper left recto; catchwords on every verso, lower left.
• Layout: 21 long lines with border rules.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: Likely copied in the late 18th or early 19th century.
• Script: Written in naskh using black ink.

Location of originals

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

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

Formerly owned by William Camac; bequeathed to the University of Pennsylvania in the Camac Memorial Collection; received in 1904.

Cite as

UPenn Ms. Codex 1917.

OCLC

1059578373

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