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Resource Type:
Text
Identifier:
Shelf Mark: MS Victoria 1992-037-1
Extent:
1 leaf ; 22.5 x 16.5 cm
Geographic Coverage:
North Africa
Coordinates:
32.95337, 9.97559
Additional Physical Characteristics:
Written In Dark Brown Kufic Script, Vowels In Red Dots. Text: Surah 54, vv. 17-32 [from Maggs Bros. export license] Mounted between two pieces of cardboard, using paper hinges. Clear plastic in cut-out of top piece of cardboard allows viewing. Leaf has several holes plus somewhat ragged edges; some text is affected.
Physical Repository:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:
Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
Provenance:
Bruce and Dorothy Brown Collection, officially transferred to the University of Victoria on June 27th, 1996. Earlier provenance: Acquired through Maggs Bros. Rare Books, London, April 1992, who gave as the ultimate origin of the fragment ‘North Africa’.
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
manuscripts (documents) and fragments (object portions)
Archival Item Identifier:
Accession Number: 1992-037, Item: 1
Fonds Title:
Bruce and Dorothy Brown collection
Fonds Identifier:
SC017
Is Referenced By:
Special Collections Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/ms-victoria-1992-037-1.php, Fragmentarium: https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-35el, and Archival Finding Aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/bruce-and-dorothy-brown-collection
Date Digitized:
2012-02-23
Transcript:
Description and Transcription by Sohrab Mosahebi as part of coursework for a manuscript studies class with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin, June 2022 available here: https://www.uvic.ca/library/assets/docs/mosahebi_quran_and_shahnameh.pdf
Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to the original manuscript and for reproduction requests (fee for reproductions). This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.
Resource Type:
Text
Identifier:
Shelf Mark: MS Victoria 1995-014
Extent:
412 pages ; 19.5 x 12.7 cm
Geographic Coverage:
Additional Physical Characteristics:
Manuscript on brownish coloured European paper (with watermark, not further analyzed) of two different types (pp. 1-312, 313-412), written mostly in a bold, fully vocalized naskh script. The volume is bound in a full-leather Islamic binding, with gilded ornamentation (borders, central medallion, corner pieces). Remnants of painted gold ornamentation on the edges (floral motifs) are still visible. Two (or possibly even three) hands can be distinguished: pp. 4-271, 272-310, 313-403, the first of which is of calligraphic quality, the others are less accomplished, and on p. 311 the colophon is written in thuluth script by the first or second copyist. The divide between the two sorts of paper coincides with the divide between hands. At the end of the volume (pp. 406-408) a Turkish text has been added, which is written in ruqʿa script within frames that were not used for the second part of the volume. The entire content of the volume is set within a composite frame (gold, red), black ink, with the use of gold and white ink, and several colours. Up till p. 311 the texts are written in 9 lines to the page (traces of the use of a mist'ara), with cloud shaped divisions between the lines. From p. 313 onwards many calligraphic panels and drawings are given with a varied number of lines. -- Bookseller's description
Physical Repository:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Collection:
Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Collection
Provider:
University of Victoria (B.C.). Library
Genre:
manuscripts (documents)
Archival Item Identifier:
1995-014
Fonds Title:
Arabic Manuscripts Collection
Fonds Identifier:
SC119
Is Referenced By:
Archival finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/arabic-manuscripts-collection and Special Collection Inventory: https://www.uvic.ca/library/locations/home/spcoll/collections/medieval/ms-victoria-1995-014.php