Details

Former owner

• Block, Gordon A., Jr., 1914-1973 [Browse]

Summary note

Small, complete copy of the Qur'ān in very good condition.

Notes

• Binding: Brown leather over pasteboard (Type III). Outside covers have gilt stamped frame, mostly effaced. Doublure in thin, reddish leather. Endbands in purple and white thread with a chevron pattern.
• Decoration: Polychrome decoration in vivid red, blue, and gold. Dual-page illumination with knotwork design text border and page frame on first opening (f. 1v-2r). Sūrah titles in red on gold background with red and blue accents; gold diamonds with red crosses mark verse endings; polychrome medallions in the margins mark text divisions (juzʼ). The entire text is written in the suggestion of cloudbands, gold between each line. Textblock has double border-rules in gold and black; page opening is framed in black.
• Foliation: Western numeral foliation in pencil added, upper left recto; catchwords on verso, lower left.
• Layout: 20 long lines, border-ruled.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: Item is not dated, but an inscription has the date 22 Ramadan [1]135 (June 26, 1723) (f. 68r).
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized. A few marginal notes in nastaʻliq in black ink.
• Title supplied by cataloger.

Location of originals

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

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

Gift of Gordon A. Block, Jr. (bookplate inside upper cover), 1966.

Cite as

UPenn Ms. Codex 1907.

OCLC

1083523134

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