University of Pennsylvania, CAJS Rar Ms 280

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DS ID:

DS766

Shelfmark:

CAJS Rar Ms 280

Title:

Koran.

Scribe:

Ḥanāshī, Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad

Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad Ḥanāshī WIKIDATA

Date:

[1342-1343]

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

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

Former Owner(s):

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning WIKIDATA

Universität Wien. Orientalisches Institut

Institut für Orientalistik (Universität Wien) WIKIDATA

Note:

Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.
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.
Origin: Copy completed by Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻImād? al-Ḥanāshī (p. [598]), possibly in the 17th or 18th century.
Binding: 19th- or 20th-century quarter leather with spine title Koran.
Decoration: Some marginal medallions in red, green and yellow; illuminated text division in red, green, yellow (p. [293], [426], [522], [576])
Formerly in the collection of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on label, right cover).
Formerly in the collection of the Orientalisches Institut (founded in 1886), Universität Wien (label, right cover).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Arabic

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Medieval

illuminations (paintings)

Qur'ans

paper (fiber product)

naskhī

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9933866253503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3gq6r652/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania