Details

Subject(s)

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

Getty AAT genre

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

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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