Item Summary

Part XVIII of the Koran; containing Sūrahs XXIII, XXIV and XXV: 1-22.

Descriptive Information

Title
[القرآن. جزء 18].
Transliterated Title
[al-Qurʼān. Juzʼ 18].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 593H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcg445cq78t
Publisher
[15--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1599
Format
Manuscript
Extent
21 leaves : paper ; 227 x 157 (160 x 110) mm. bound to 233 x 168 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1179B.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 21 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 9 lines per page.
Description: Top, middle, and bottom lines written in thuluth others in general script ; rubricated ; full vowel signs ; MS in good condition, but extensively mended.
Origin: Probably from the sixteenth century.
Beginning: سورة [المؤمنين] ثانية وثماني عشراية * بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قد افلح المؤمنين
Ending: لبعض فتنة اتصبرون وكان ربك بصيرا
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped design and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Yellow paper pastedowns. Cover is warped.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
55

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7cafbf6d-553c-46ae-9fd2-6cc26ce5bbd2/manifest