Details

Subject(s)

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

Getty AAT genre

• Parchment [Browse]

Summary note

Juzʼ 14 of the Qurʼān, from the 10th century.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Physical description: 8 lines per page; written in New Style script (NS. III--see Déroche, F., The Abbasid tradition, no. 79) in brown-black ink on parchment. Two types of vocalization used: red dots and modern vocalization in brown-black. Āyahs terminate with gilt flowers. Sūrah names in gilt outlined with brown-black ink and accompanied by polychrome fleur-de-lis designs. Floral medallions in margins mark every ten verses.
• Origin: Dated 292 H [904 or 5] (fol. 48a).

Binding note

Full brown leather over pasted boards with central stamped medallion and fillets; leather doublures. Ex libris of Robert Garrett on inner front cover.

Language note

Arabic.

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

667624246

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