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Qurʼān.

Item Info

Title:
  • Qurʼān.
Alternative Title:
  • Qurʼān. Juz’ 2.
  • Qurʼan. Juzʼ al-Ḥamd-Juzʼ al-Mulk.
  • قرآن. جزء الحمد-جزء الملك.
Date:
  • 1700 to 1799?
Description:

  • Manuscript codexes.

  • Title devised by cataloger.

  • Physical description: 11-12 lines per page, written in Sūdānī on heavy glazed, laid European paper (shield watermark?). Approximately 25 leaves per volume. Red punctuation marks; verses marked by three red dots; catchwords. Not all surahs marked with title; when written, surah headings are in red and appear to have been added by a later hand. Text fully vocalized. First few words of some volumes in red if text does not begin with the basmalah. On leaves 23a-b, volume 18; page 2 of cover of volume 24; and leaf 2b, volume 29 are practice copies of Sūrat al-Fātiḥah written in a crude hand. Volume 29 bound out of order; correct sequence of leaves is 5, 1, 4, 6-23, 3, 2. Some volumes end with "ṣadaqa Allāh al-aẓīm . . . " Damp staining around margins. Originally housed in leather case measuring 12. 5 x 29 x 17. 6 cm.

  • Waqf notice in some volumes (3, 5-9, 12, 18-19, 21-26): "Waqafat'hu Fāṭimah lillāh taʻalá fa-yakūnu al-thawāb li-ummihā" or a shortened version thereof.

  • An incomplete multivolume manuscript of the Qurʼān from Harar; previously owned by a woman named Fāṭimah. Each volume contains one juzʼ; the last juzʼ is lacking.

  • Loose in stiffened maroon leather wrappers with flaps; blind-stamped central mandorla and pendants; tooled border. Paper doublures.

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Extent:
  • 29 volumes ; 157 x 115 mm
Digital Collection:
Early Manuscripts collection
Related Resources:
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Provenance:
Rights:
Free Re-UsePublic Domain
Identifier:
  • Call number: Arabic MS #24. 02
  • 003968840
  • duke:448677
  • emsar01021
  • ark:/87924/r4nk38351
  • f0d5a630-8ecb-4edc-8fc8-df637c443248
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