Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—18th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—18th century [Browse]

Scribe

• Dirīsh Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, active 1730 [Browse]

Related name

• دريش محمد بن موسى [Browse]

Linking notes

Forms part of the Individual Manuscripts and Small Collections.

Summary note

An Ottoman region manuscript Qur'an from the 18th century.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
• Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto and upper right verso; catchwords every verso, lower left.
• Layout: 13 long lines; frame-ruled.
• Collation: Paper, 352. Catchwords on each leaf, lower left verso.
• Script: Written in Naskh in black and red ink.
• Decoration: Polychrome and gold illuminated frontispiece (f. 1v-2r) with text in cloudbands. Polychrome and gold chapter headings. Gold roundels mark verse endings. Border-rules and page-frame ruled in gold. Polychrome and gold marginal medallions.
• Origin: Copy completed in Muḥarram 1143 A.H. (1730 CE) by Dirīsh Muḥammad ibn Mūsá (pages 724).

Binding note

Dark brown leather binding with medallions and gold decoration.

Rights and reproductions note

The al-Qurʼān is the physical property of the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. The work is in the public domain. Please include a complete citation in your work.

Language note

Materials in Arabic.

Source acquisition

Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps and Books ; Purchase ; August 1, 2017.

Cite as

al-Qurʼān, SCRC 447, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In

Individual Manuscripts and Small Collections

OCLC

1144805029

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