Details

Subject(s)

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

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 592H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Parchment (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A fragment of the Koran containing Sūrahs IX:94-XI:10, equating to juzʼ 11 and the first 5 verses of juzʼ 12.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Collation: Parchment ; fol. i + 41 ; foliation using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 8 lines per page.
• Description: Written in late Kūfī script ; use of red ; MS in good condition. Corners damaged.
• Origin: MS probably belongs to the early part of the XIIIth century.
• Ending: بعد ضرا مسته ليقولون ذهب السيات عنى انه لفرح فخور
• Beginning: انما السبيل على الذين يسبذنونك وهم اغنيا رضوا بان يكونوا مع الخوالف ...

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-tooled frame. Upper cover badly damaged.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Kūfī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1179A.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1345318969

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