Title supplied by cataloger. Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. Layout: Written in 11 long lines. Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized. Decoration: Polychrome and gold dual-page illumination (f. 1v-2r); numerous marginal medallions in gold and blue with polychrome flowers and blue foliate finials mark text divisions; sūrah headers in red ink framed by rectangles with foliate motifs on either end chiefly in blue and gold with small, polychrome flowers; gold roundels with orange, blue and green dots mark verse endings; textblock... Binding: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); gold stamped frame; bright orange doublure; red and yellow chevron endbands. Origin: The item is undated, a waqf stamp places it before 1661 CE (f. 121r) Waqf note, partially scrubbed (f. 1r); stamp (f. 1r); stamp is repeated throughout, often effaced but occasionally visible (see f. 121r, 166r, 292r, 318r, 345r, 360r). Had been given in waqf (pious endowment) by the Grand Vizier (al-Wazīr al-Āʻzam), the conqueror of the Island of Crete (Fātiḥ Jazīrat Kirīd), 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... Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
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