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Or 16058

Record Id:
032-003457043
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003457043
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100082136083.0x000001
LARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100136248460.0x000001
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16058
Title:

Quran

Scope & Content:

Qur’ān, in Arabic, a copy from Daghistan.

The colophon on f. 546r dated Rabiulawal 1237 (November/December 1821), which mentions the name Musa bin Muhammad al-R... al-Jakki al-Hakari and the masjid al-Jakki al-Hakari bi-Filibin, may be a fraudulent modern addition.

Contents:

f. 1r: a few lines of a prayer

ff. 1v-545v: text of Qur’an, ends Allahu akbar

f. 546r-v: colophon and prayer on completion of the Qur’anf. 547: additional piece of graph paper with a prayer for recitation of the Qur’an written in ballpoint ink.

Text frames of 3 ruled black lines, extended horizontally inwards towards the gutter, uniting the text blocks on the two facing pages. Verse markers are orange roundels, drawn freehand. Surah headings are set in ruled cartouches, sometimes with knotted ta marbuta; some reserved in white against a coloured ground, and sometimes flanking or flanked by the final words of the preceding surah, with decorated palmettes extending into the margin; the first few words of the surah are often calligraphically enhanced and coloured, some with an elaborate knot in the middle of the sin-mim ligature of bism.

Marginalia:

juz’ are marked with a variety of marginal ornaments, with the first words of the text in bold; the juz’ markers are numbered in the first half of the MS; in the first half of the MS, hizb are reserved in white in ornamental cartouches, but in the second half are labelled nisf al-juz’ (eg. f. 282r) or nisf (eg. f. 299r); wird is marked in bold or in colours; sajdah marked in a variety of ornamental forms; nisf al-Qur’an inscribed on f. 131v, beg. of S. al-A‘raf; and f. 271r; ‘ashrah, marking every ten verses; 'ayn, often with ornamental tail, indicating ruku’; sajdah marked with semi-circular ornaments.

Illuminated pages: ff. 1v-2r: decorated frames with double headpiece enclosing S. al-Fatihah, written in purple ink; ff. 273v-274r: large decorated panels;ff. 274v-275r: beg. of S. Maryam, in landscape format with decorated frames; f. 394r: panel with dhikr (rhythmic recitation); f. 395v: beg. of S. Yasin: in mixed portrait and landscape format, with decorated frames.

This is a very well-used manuscript, with tears and stains along edges, and many old paper repairs, especially along gutter, often with graph paper. There are some corrections to the text on pasted-over paper, eg. f. 32r.

Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
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Hierarchy:
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Container:
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
547 folios
Digitised Content:
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Languages:
Arabic
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1821
End Date:
1821
Date Range:
1821
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 350 x 220 mm. 547 ff., Russian paper, of various manufactures, with embossed stamps in Cyrillic, including:f. 19r, ‘Medyanski Fabr[iku] / Perbushena i / No. bumaga 7’f. 102r, 112r, ‘Fabriki / Nasledekov / Sumkino / No.7’f. 296r, ‘Tataiovskoi / N. Irotis‘eva 6 / Fabriki’

12 lines per page, black ink, in a striking, bold, accomplished hand. Text block 260 x 135 mm. Catchwords, with overlining, on the verso of each folio.

Many dried leaves interspersed between pages. On f.225 a fragment of paper in printed Cyrillic script is found.

Binding: Old dark blue cloth binding over boards, with blue binding threads.

Source of Acquisition:
Christie’s South Kensington, 15 October 2004, Indian and Islamic works of art, lot 466
Publications:

A.T. Gallop, Fakes or fancies? Some ‘problematic’ Islamic manuscripts from Southeast Asia. Manuscript cultures, 2017, 10: 101-128.

A.T. Gallop, From Caucasia to Southeast Asia: Daghistani Qur’ans and the Islamic manuscript tradition in Brunei and the southern Philippines. I-II. Manuscripta Orientalia, 14 (1), June 2008, pp. 32-56; 14 (2), December 2008, pp. 3-20

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)