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Subject(s)

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

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic Empire—15th century [Browse]

Summary note

Volume 1 of a copy of the Qurʾān, containing Surahs 1-18.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Physical description: 11 lines per page; written in large muḥaqqaq in black on heavy, tan, glazed, laid Arabic paper. Stops and marginal notes in red. Numerous paper repairs, extensive smudging and staining, ragged edges, mild insect damage. Text block has been trimmed. In poor condition.
• Decoration: Illuminated spread on leaves 1b-2a, with āyahs 56:77-80 in gold at top and bottom; heavily damaged, with most of the color rubbed away. Āyahs terminate with gold and red discs. Gold and blue medallions in margins indicate every ten āyahs. Sūrah headings in gold; first two sūrah headings set within small illuminated ʻunwāns connected to gold medallions in the margins, also heavily damaged.

Binding note

Full maroon leather with flap; gold-stamped central mandorla and pendants and blind-stamped fillets. Āyah 56:79 (lā yamassuhu illā al-muṭahharūn) gold-stamped onto the side piece joining the flap to the cover.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

Waqf notes in Turkish on leaf 336b; dates are cut off by paper repairs. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut).

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

OCLC

842898453

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