Ohio University, folio-east-03
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS30471
- Shelfmark:
- folio-east-03
- Title:
- Qurʼan
Foliophiles Eastern leaf 03: Qur'an, West Africa, 19th century
Leaf containing al-Sajdah most of verses 4 to 19 (32:4-19)
- Place:
- West Africa
- Date:
- 19th century
- Language:
- Arabic
- Material:
- Paper (fiber product)
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf; Paper (fiber product); 16.3 cm x 20.7 cm
- Note:
- Layout: Marginal Illuminations in red and yellow
Layout: circular sajda medallion and juz' rectangular medallion
Script: West African Maghribi in brown ink; pointed and vocalized
Decoration: Marginal Illustrations; Marginalia (annotations)
Binding: Loose leaf
Provenance: This leaf is from a portfolio compiled by The Foliophiles Inc. in 1928 and issued as a limited edition under the title "Specimens of Oriental Mss and Printing."
Provenance: The set of leaves belonging to Ohio University is number 13 of 120.
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Provenance: Original descriptions, therefore, may contain outdated language, speculation, or inaccurate information.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 AN ALGERIAN KORAN of comparatively recent date, but interesting because of its picturesque crudity, and because the chirographer has imitated an old script peculiar to the Arabs and Moors of North Africa, known as Moghrebi
The paper used is plainly European
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, we may add, 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
Even Persian, one of the great Indo-European group, has bodily adopted the Arabic alphabet, and though retaining its ancient phonetics, has become, under Arabic influence, a transliterated language.
Specimens of Eastern Manuscripts and Printing - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- http://media.library.ohio.edu/digital/collection/p15808coll19/id/4890
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://media.library.ohio.edu/iiif/2/p15808coll19:4890/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
