Arabic Manuscript Of Koran
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Nov 1904
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Lt. Col. Edgar A. Mearns
notes: label: Notes
content: Identified by Annabel Gallop, The British Library: Qur'an, incomplete. In Arabic. Cream European paper; many loose folios (including some from a printed Qur'an); poor condition. Loose wraparound leather cover, with the hair of the animal (goat) still visible. Text in black ink, in a careful neat regular hand; 13 lines per page; text frames of ruled black-red-black lines. Catchwords at the bottom left of each verso are written vertically. Verse markers are black circles. No surah headings are visible on the photographed pages (although an empty line has been left for a heading at the start of S. Yusuf ), or any marginal ornaments or decoration. The first folio of the manuscript bundle contains the start of Surat al-Isra' (Q.17), with 8 lines of text, set within an illuminated rectangular frame; verse markers are rather elaborate triple concentric red circles. The inner frame contains a spiky foliate scroll in reserved white against a pink ground, and is outlined with two pairs of double-ruled black lines enclosing a pale yellow border, while the outer thinner frame contains a blue wave-like pattern on a white ground, with small pink fillers. On the two vertical sides, the frames are extend upwards and downwards. On all four sides around the text block are triangular arches containing a bud motif in reserved white agains a pale ochre ground. References: Gallop, Annabel Teh. "Islamic Manuscripts from the Philippines in U.S. Collections: a preliminary listing, including two printed Qur'ans." Our Own Voice Literary Ezine: Filipinos in the Diaspora (April 2011): n. pag. Web. Retrieved from http://www.oovrag.com/bibliography/bibliography13.shtml . Gallop, Annabel Teh. "Qur'an Manuscripts from Mindanao in U.S. Collections." Our Own Voice Literary Ezine: Filipinos in the Diaspora (April 2011): n. pag. Web. Retrieved from http://www.oovrag.com/essays/essay2011a-1.shtml . Gallop, Annabel Teh (2021): Qur'an manuscripts from Mindanao: collecting histories, art and materiality, South East Asia Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2021.1895674
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Philippines
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Moro
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 043557
label: USNM Number
content: E232848A-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Koran
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 30 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 23 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 8.9 cm