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]

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page; written in naskhi script in black on glossy white paper. Catchwords; tajwīd markings in red. Extensive water damage in second quarter of ms.; a few pages stuck together and some smudging resulting in some loss of text. Text is followed by a one-page prayer on fol. 305a. Notes in Ottoman Turkish on fol. 304a and p. 1 of back endpaper.
• Decoration: Text framed in red and gold; āyahs terminate in gold discs. On fol. 1b-2a are two well-executed polychrome and gilt illuminated headers with floral design; margins decorated with pale gilt floral pattern. Surah headings in white on gold and framed in one of a variety of colors. Ajzāʾ marked in margins in white set within polychrome and gilt flowers; sajdahs marked in margins in white set within polychrome and gilt mandorlas.
• Origin: Copied in 1241 AH (1825 or 6) by Aḥmad al-Walī (or al-Wakī), a student of Muḥammad al-Zuhdī (fol. 304b).

Binding note

Full brown leather binding with gold-stamped central mandorla, corner designs, and fillets; corners repaired. Green endpapers.

Language note

Arabic.

Source acquisition

Gift; Hugh T. Adams (Princeton Class of 1935), 2003/7/18 (2004-06).

OCLC

1340512885

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