Details

Seller

• Bloomsbury Auctions (Firm) [Browse]

Summary note

Complete copy of the Qur'ān with three sets of dual-page illuminated page surrounds. One page is copied twice, once upside down with a mostly blank facing page; there is no text missing.

Notes

• Binding: Brown leather over pasteboard with flap on the front cover (Type II); stamped with blind stamped central mandorla, pendants, cornerpieces, frame, and border; plain paper doublure.
• Decoration: Sūrah titles in red ink, framed in gold; textblock ruled in two lines and red and one of black; gold roundels at end of each verse; readings marked in red; text partitions noted in the margins in red; double page illuminated text surrounds in red, white and black (f. [1]v-[2]r, [168]v-[169]r, [332]v-[333]r).
• Foliation: Unfoliated; catchwords on every verso, lower left.
• Layout: Written in 15 long lines with border rules.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: The item is undated and unsigned; possibly 18th or 19th century.
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
• Title supplied by cataloger.

Location of originals

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

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

Purchased from Bloomsbury, Friday 30 October 2020, lot 84.

Cite as

UPenn Oversize Ms. Codex 2047.

OCLC

1237600119

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