Details

Former owner

• Shore, Offley Bohun Stovin Fairless, 1863-1922 [Browse]

Summary note

Qur'ān; complete except for first folio.

Notes

• Binding: Bound in reddish brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); headband in black and brown thread; seperate marbled paper pastedowns inside both covers; detached reddish textile wrapper; blind stamped and gilded mandorlas on front and back covers with four pendants along vertical axis and cornerpieces; covers are badly water and fire damaged.
• Decoration: Readings in red, sūrah titles rubricated and framed; gold roundels at end of each verse; gold roundels outlined in black double line with a black vertical line underneath accompanied by a red letter ʻayn in margins to indicate rukuʻ. Juzʼ markers in red ink in margins; gold non-circular medallions indicating other text partitions. Some decorations finished by another hand; textblock border-ruled in red; page openings framed in faded black.
• First folio missing; first full āyah is verse 12 in Sūrat al-Baqarah (2:12).
• Foliation: Western numeral foliation in pencil added, upper left recto (not visible in images); catchwords on every verso, lower left.
• Layout: 11 long lines, border-ruled.
• Manuscript is in poor condition; many leaves are loose; binding is off; worm damage; water and fire damage throughout.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: Likely copied in South Asia in the mid- to late-19th century; machine made paper.
• Script: Written in naskh using black ink; pointed and vocalized.

Location of originals

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

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Col. Offley Shore.
• Gift of Offley Shore.

Cite as

UPenn Oversize Ms. Codex 1897.

OCLC

1059578305

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