Manuscript
Koran
- Holding institution:
- Penn Museum
- Data provider:
- Penn Museum
- Title:
- Manuscript
Koran - Creator:
- Mahmud Ben EL-Husein
- Date:
- 1214 AD
- Description:
- Complete text of Qur'an written in black ink, Arabic gloss written in red ink. Between the time of its copying and its donation as waqf (pious donation), found in the margins of folio 2a, by Am?r Ahmad J?w?sh (d. 1786) to the al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, the manuscript underwent many repairs and emandations. Geometrically elaborated double page finispiece (212c and 213a) bears inscription: written and decorated by Mahm?d ibn al-Husayn al- Kirm?n?, the scribe, at the end of the month of Jumada the First, of the year 559 A.H. (April 25, 1164 AD). 215 folios.
- Type:
- Manuscript
Koran - Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
Other Texts - Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Koran
- Coverage:
- Islamic
Arabic - Geographic region:
- Iran
Kirman - Time period:
- Seljuk
- Provenance:
- Purchased from Dimitri Andalaft; subscription of Eldridge R. Johnson, 1919
- Medium:
- Paper
Ink - Extent:
- 42.5
29.5 - Identifier:
- 532671
- Source:
- NEP27.60
121r 122v - Exhibit tags:
- mss-quran