Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Recitation—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Qurʼan—Study and teaching—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Physical description: 9 lines per page; written in naskh script on laid European paper. Headings, key words and punctuation in red ink. Catchwords; Qurʼānic words fully vocalized. Some marginal notation. Leaves bear one of two watermarks: a hand with a five pointed star above the middle finger; an anchor in a circle with a star above; crossed arrows (?). Fol. 112-131 are blank and are a later addition; they have a crest with a lion at the center, an eagle and the letters TSC. Some water stains, discoloration and worm damage to edges. Text block has been trimmed.
• Incipit:سورت الفاتحة الكتاب سبع ايات مكية. العالمين. الرحيم. يوم الدين. نستعين. المستقيم. عليهم. ولا الضالين ...

Binding note

Binding is leather and paper over pasteboard. Spine is plain leather; covers are marbeled paper. Lower endband intact. Some worm damage.

Language note

Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-111b: Arabic. Memory aid for learning Qur'ān recitation. Lists key words or rhyming words for each verse of the Qur'ān from Sūrat al-Fātiḥa to Sūrat al-Mulk (1-67:18). Also indicates liturgical textual divisions. Text is incomplete.
• 2. fol. 132a-172b: Ottoman Turkish. Grammatical treatise.

Source acquisition

Purchase, 1991.

Edge title

• Sajāwand Qurʼān al-Karīm

OCLC

436110001

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