Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Issawi, Charles, 1916-2000 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic countries—19th century [Browse]
• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic countries—19th century [Browse]

Summary note

Ms. of the Qurʾān.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in naskhi script in black on white paper. Some markings in red; fully vocalized. Text bordered by gold and black lines. Verses terminate in gold discs. Boxes for sūrah headings are in gold but the names are not written in. Illuminated ʻunwan on fol. 1b-2a in gold, blue, and lavender. Ajzāʾ marked with floral decorations in margins.

Binding note

Leather over pasteboard.

Source acquisition

Gift; Professor Charles P. Issawi, 1996 (1996-84).

OCLC

84587904

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