Add MS 12343

Qur’ān, in Arabic; a copy from Java.

Contents: f.1r: punika syarat Nifðn abdi dalem pa‘ulu sila; ff.1v-189v, text of the Qur’an; f.190r, S. al-Fatihah; f.191r: (in pen) A Legend in the Pegon; (in pencil) 'This is a copy of the Coran, in Arabic, written in Java. J.M.'

Text frames are four ruled black lines: black-black-space-black-black. Verse markers are red circles, 7 mm diameter. Surah headings are in red, 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: [left page] al-juz’ al-... / [right page] min al-Qur’ān al-‘azīm, sometimes with the first few words of the juz’ highlighted in red in the text.

Ruku’ are marked by ‘ayn in the margins, sometimes with the accompanying inscription awal (a.w.l). Illuminated pages: two simple monochrome double frames:

ff.1v-2r, S. al-Fatihah and beg. of S. al-Baqarah; black ink;

ff.189v-190r: S. al-Nas and S. al-Fatihah (the text on the preceding folios, ff.188v-189r, is stretched out to fill the whole two pages, to allow S. al-Nas to start on the right-hand side of a double-page opening).

NB: ff.88v-89r: beginning of S. al-Kahf is placed in a reduced text block but without any surrounding decoration.