Details

Standardized Title:

Qurʼan.
قرآن. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79046204

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic -- 14th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Codices.
Qur'ans.
Paper.
Naskhī.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Illuminations (painting)

Language:

Arabic.

Summary:

Copy of the Qurʼān.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, 298 leaves; [596-1], modern pagination in reverse order. Mostly gatherings of 20 leaves, with some 18 or 22; at least 3 leaves missing.
Layout: Written in 15 lines.
Script: Written in naskh script; vocalization in red ink.
Decoration: Some marginal medallions in red, green and yellow; illuminated text division in red, green, yellow (p. [293], [426], [522], [576])
Binding: 19th- or 20th-century quarter leather with spine title Koran.
Origin: Copy completed by Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻImād? al-Ḥanāshī (p. [598]), possibly in the 17th or 18th century.
Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly in the collection of the Orientalisches Institut (founded in 1886), Universität Wien (label, right cover).
Formerly in the collection of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on label, right cover).

Contributor:

Ḥanāshī, Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad, scribe.
Universität Wien. Orientalisches Institut, former owner.
Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

OCLC:

954274568