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Metadata

DS ID:

DS30462

Shelfmark:

pftp-082

Title:

Qur'an

Qurʼan

Qur'an, South Asia, 1700s (PftP leaf: s01, f082)

Qurʼan

Leaf containing al-Mulk most of verses 3 to 18 (67:3-18)

Mulk

Place:

South Asia

South Asia TGN

Date:

18th century

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

Paper (fiber product)

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf; Paper (fiber product); 30 cm x 18.7 cm

Note:

Layout: Written in 11 long lines
Layout: border ruled in red and blue
Layout: readings in red
Layout: verse endings marked with black-lined, gold colored roundels with a red central dot; red ʿayn in the margin mark rukūʿ.
Script: naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized
Decoration: borders (ornament areas); long-line format;
Provenance: This leaf is from a portfolio compiled by The Foliophiles Inc. and issued as a limited edition under the title "Pages from the past: Original leaves from rare books and manuscripts."
Provenance: The set of leaves belonging to Ohio University is number 18 of 20 in "Portfolio set I: History of the written word."
Provenance: The transcribed labels accompanying these leaves were originally written by The Foliophiles, Inc., a now-defunct New York association of rare book dealers that was also known as the Society of Foliophiles.
Provenance: Between 1925 and 1968 The Foliophiles disbound hundreds of historical texts and assembled them into several thematic portfolio sets.
Provenance: These were then issued in “editions” of between 15 and 200 leaves. Universities across America subsequently purchased these portfolios as teaching tools.
Provenance: While a small number of the selected leaves come from other cultures, the vast majority are from European texts. The collecting and marketing practices of The Foliophiles reflect the values of the members of the association and the contemporary American rare book market.
Provenance: Original descriptions, therefore, may contain outdated language, speculation, or inaccurate information.
The following text is based on the original seller's label. FROM A MANUSCRIPT KORAN, executed in a clear, firm hand in the style of chirography known as Naskhi
The paper, of course, was hand-made, and like most Oriental papers has been carefully sized and polished
The calligraphist wrote with a reed
Although this interesting MS
contains no record of place or date, it is probably Egyptian in origin, and undoubtedly of the Sixteenth Century
The language is Arabic, for no matter where a Koran is transcribed or printed, according to Muhammadan law it must adhere to the language of the adored Prophet
Arabic is a Semitic language, derived from the Aramean alphabet, and its gradual evolution, as a philologist puts it, "into a curious 'short-hand', with its many ambiguous abbreviations of the historic letters, is one of the most remarkable transformations known in the history of calligraphy"
And no less remarkable, it may be added, was the swift spread of this once insignificant dialect, unaided by the printing press, to a commanding position among the great languages of the world
Arabic, like Persian, is read from right to left
© 1926, T.F.I.
Pages from the Past, Set I: History of the written word

Keyword:

Qurʼan

Manuscripts

Institutional Record:

http://media.library.ohio.edu/digital/collection/p15808coll19/id/251

IIIF Manifest:

https://media.library.ohio.edu/iiif/2/p15808coll19:251/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Ohio University