[القرآن].

[al-Qurʾān].

Uniform title
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[1865]
Description
395 leaves : paper ; 202 x 135 (142 x 82) mm. bound to 202 x 140 mm.

Details

Subject(s)
Getty AAT genre
Summary note
Iluminated ms. of the Qurʾān in traditional Ottoman binding.
Notes
  • Ms. codex.
  • Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in naskhi script in black on glossy white paper. Illuminated headers on fol. 1b-2a in blue, orange, purple and gold floral design. Sūrah headings in white with gold background. Catchwords. Tajwīd symbols in red; āyahs terminate in gold discs. Text framed in gold and red. Ajzāʾ marked in margin by number set within a gold, green, and magenta flower, as well as the word "waqf" written vertically in large script. Colophon on fol. 394a set within a mandorla framed by a gold foliar design on a blue background. Statement in Ottoman Turkish on fol. 1a.
  • Origin: Copied by al-Sayyid Ḥasan al-ʻĀrifī in 1281 AH (1865) (fol. 394a).
Binding note
Full brown leather with flap; gold-stamped central mandorla and corner decorations and blind-stamped fillets. Green endpapers.
Language note
Arabic.
Source acquisition
Gift; Helen Joy Smith, 1999/2/11 (1999-69).
OCLC
1340515609
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