Details

Subject(s)

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

Getty AAT genre

• Headpieces (layout features)—Islamic countries—18th century [Browse]
• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic countries—18th century [Browse]
• Cases (containers)—Islamic countries—18th century [Browse]

Summary note

Illuminated ms. of the Qurʾān in silver carrying case for use by a soldier.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in tiny naskhi script in black on white European glazed, laid paper. Tajwīd markings in red; ajzāʾ marked in red in margins. Text framed in gold and blue and margins framed in black. Polychrome and gold illuminated headers on fol. 1b and 2a. Sūrah headings in red with gold background; āyahs terminate in gold discs.
• Accompanying materials: With 1 silver ornate carrying case, 97 x 102 x 40 mm., with top flap and loop for belt.

Binding note

Contemporary quarter leather with green pasteboards.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

Previously owned by Luther R. Fowle.

Source acquisition

Gift; Helen Joy Smith, 1999/2/11 (1999-69).

OCLC

567130588

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