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Manuscript/Mixed Material Sūrat al-Qāf سورة القاف / Title on container: SURAT / AL / AHQĀF

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Title

  • Sūrat al-Qāf

Other Title

  • سورة القاف
  • Title on container: SURAT / AL / AHQĀF

Summary

  • Sūrat al-Ahqāf with interlinear Persian translation.

Created / Published

  • [18th century]

Headings

  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  India

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic and Persian.
  • -  [Source of title]
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Written in India.
  • -  Paper; cream or light beige color paper in very poor condition; the signatures are held together loosely with fine white threads; the opening pages are badly damaged; pages are illuminated with large and unusual, spade-shaped, Indian-style blue and gold decorations with tiny red decorative motifs framing the text on the first two pages; there are many losses, especially on the first page; Arabic text is in black ink and the interlinear Persian translation in red.
  • -  Bihari style cursive naskh
  • -  Several small illuminations in the margins.
  • -  [Collation]
  • -  Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M142.
  • -  Lacks binding; existing acidic endpapers are very brittle.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Medium

  • 50 leaves, paper : disbound ; 15 x 24 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BP128.94 .A2 1700z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017498316

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

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