Princeton University, Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 191Lq

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS29597

Shelfmark:

Oversize Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 191Lq

Title:

al-Qurʼān

Qurʼan

Place:

Indonesia?

Indonesia TGN

Date:

19th century?

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 358 leaves : paper ; 322 x 203 (216 x 112) mm bound to 320 x 215 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal notes. Insert.
Collation: Paper ; fol. iv + 358 + iv ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red and gold.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (lion in a circle topped by a crown with lettering "concordia res paruae crescunt"; roman-alphabet letters "VdL" ) ; MS in very good condition.
Decoration: Opening, middle and closing spreads written within wide borders elaborately decorated with yellow, red and black (fol. 1b-2a, 174b-174a, and 357b-358a).). Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ written in tapered colophon shape and framed below with simlar elaborate decoration (fol. 357a). Verses separated by yellow or red circles.
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Gold-stamped mandorla with pendants and cornerpieces and gold-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap and flap fore-edge. Red floral cloth pastedowns and flyleaf. Multi-colored endbands.
Origin: Probably from the early part of the XIXth century.
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.

Keyword:

illuminated manuscripts

Cloth bindings

Gold tooled bindings

Watermarks

Headbands

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963576893506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/902267ee-c0d3-4816-b524-4ce74692f12a/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University