University of Pennsylvania, CAJS Rar Ms 280

Images provided by hosting institution via

Metadata

DS ID:

DS766

Shelfmark:

CAJS Rar Ms 280

Title:

Koran

Qurʼan

Scribe:

Ḥanāshī, Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad

Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad Ḥanāshī WIKIDATA

Date:

1342-1343

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, illuminations

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 299 leaves : paper, illuminations ; 230 x 160 (180 x 100) mm bound to 240 x 180 mm

Former Owner(s):

Universität Wien. Orientalisches Institut

Institut für Orientalistik (Universität Wien) WIKIDATA

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning WIKIDATA

Note:

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.
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).
Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.

Keyword:

Qur'ans

codices (bound manuscripts)

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Fourteenth century

paper (fiber product)

Manuscripts, Medieval

naskhī

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9933866253503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3gq6r652/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania