Add MS 12312

Qur’ān, in Arabic; a copy from Java.

Contents: ff.1v-200r: text of the Quran, ends with the repetition of the S. al-Fatihah.

Text frames are triple-ruled black lines. Verse markers are red circles with a black dot in the middle, 6 mm diameter. Surah headings are in red ink, often with multiple knotted ta marbuta.

Marginalia: juz' are marked with semicircles in black ink on the outer vertical text frames of both facing pages, inscribed within in red ink: [right page] al-juz’ al-... / [left page] min al-Qur’ān al-‘azīm, and the start of the juz’ is marked in the text with three vertically-stacked red circles or a decorated circle.

Ruku' are marked with a pyramidal construction of parallel lines alternately in red and black, surmounted by a finial in black, above an elaborate 'ayn in red with two horizontal flourishes and the ruku' number.

Illuminated pages:

ff.1v-2r, S. al-Fatihah and beg. of S. al-Baqarah, double frame in red and black ink

ff.94v-95r, beg. of S. al-Kahf, double frame in black ink.

Colophon on f.200r: hādhā al-qur’ān Ðatam búad b.ê.r fī al-yawm Saptu wa-Allāhu āúlam, ‘this is the Qur’an completed after ... on Saturday, and God knows best.’

Annotations: f.[i]v: (in brown pen) A religious work in the Pegon.; (in pencil) It is a copy of the Coran, in Arabic written in Java.