Details

Related name

Benjamin Franklin Library Fund [Browse]

Summary note

Selections from the Qurʼān on a narrow, paper scroll. Lithographed rather than written, though decoration is by hand. The following verses are included: al-Fātiḥah, al-Baqarah (1-34), Āl-ʻImrān (1-31), Ṭā Ḥā (1-47), Yā Sīn (1-24), al-Mulk (1-21), al-Ikhlāṣ, al-Falaq, al-Nās.

Notes

• Binding: Cover made of a thin piece of brown leather attached to the top leaf, with no way to attach the ends.
• Decoration: Simple illuminated rectangular panels composed of red, green, and blue triangles together.
• Layout: 3 lines per centimeter for text areas.
• Ms. roll.
• Origin: Item is not dated, but likely make in the second half of the 20th century.
• Script: Informal naskh in black ink, pointed, unvocalized.
• Title supplied by cataloger.

Location of originals

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

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

Sold on eBay in 2014.

Cite as

UPenn Ms. Roll 1965.

OCLC

1083523251

Original language

[القرآن].

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