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Qurʼān : printed text

Uniform Title
Qurʼan.
Title
Qurʼān : printed text.
قرآن : نص مطبوع.
Production
Place not identified, 19th century.
Physical Description
1 volume (542 pages) ; 25 cm
Language
Arabic
Notes
Title from reference sources.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
16 x 24 cm; printed surface: 12.5 x 20 cm; 15 lines per page.
Binding: In dark brown leather (cover partly deteriorated)
Printed in calligraphic naskh script, in black ink, on cream color paper; text fully vocalized and framed; catchwords.
Page 299 has an attached typewritten note: "KORAN written in Arabic and found by my grandfather A. I. Marriott, in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War."
Colophon (A quotation from Sūrat al-Anʻām, verse 115): "Wa-tammat kalimatu Rabbika ṣidqan wa-ʻadlan lā mubaddila li-kalimātihi wa-Huwa al-samīʻ [al-ʻAlīm] ..."
الخاتمة (اقتباس من سورة الانعام، الآية 115): "وتمّت كلمتُ ربّك صدقًا وعدلًا لا مُبدّلَ لكلمٰتِه وهو السميع [العليم] ..."
Translation of the colophon: "And the Word of Your Lord has been fulfilled with truth and justice, there is no changing for His words, and He is the All-Hearing, [the All-Knowing] ..."
In Arabic.
Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary.
Provenance
Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Complete copy of the Qurʼān, found by A. I. Marriott in the Philippines, during the Spanish-American War. Place and date of printing not mentioned, probably in the 19th century.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
April 18, 2023
References
Qurʼān. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Qurʼān. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Arabic - 19th century.
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