al-Qurʼān.
- Holding institution:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Data provider:
- University of Pennsylvania Libraries
- Title:
- al-Qurʼān.
القرآن - Date:
- between 1550 and 1650?
- Description:
- Complete copy of the Qurʼān with a final prayer; border-rules have corroded the paper on some leaves.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Manuscripts, Arabic
Manuscripts, 17th century
Qurʼans
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Illuminations (painting)
Envelope flaps (features)
Annotations (Provenance)
Stamps (Provenance) - Provenance:
- Gift of Mayer Sulzberger to the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on library bookplate, inside front cover).Had been given in waqf (pious endowment) by the the Grand Vizier (al-Vazīr al-Āʻzim), the conquerer of the Island of Crete (Fātiḥ Jazīrat Krīd), Aḥmad Pāshā, possibly Melek Ahmed Pasha (approximately 1604-1662); the name of the mosque to which the manuscript was given is scrubbed (f. 1r). Numerous waqf stamps with the name Pīr Valī Muḥammad Pāshā and the year 1072 A.H. (1661 or 1662 CE) also appear (f. 121r, 166r, 292r, 318r, 345r, 360r)Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
- Extent:
- Written in 11 long lines.
- Publisher:
- University of Pennsylvania
- Rights:
- These images and the content of Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies CAJS Rar Ms 121: al-Qurʼān. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.
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- CAJS Rar Ms 121
- Is part of:
- OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World
- Exhibit tags:
- mss_quran