Tag: Qurʾān

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

The Final Part of a Mamlūk Qurʾān Copy

adminuatpa

Oct 9, 2019

Written by Kelly Tuttle A serendipitous discovery happened as part of the Manuscripts of the Muslim World project a few weeks ago. Mitch Fraas, the project lead at Penn, came by and dropped off a copy of the Journal of Islamic Manuscripts to me. A break sounded nice, so I turned away from NEP 80,…
Continue reading

Welcome

Welcome to Unique at Penn, part of the family of University of Pennsylvania Libraries blogs. This space will feature descriptions and contextualization of items from the collections of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. The site focuses on those materials held by Penn which are in some sense “unique” – drawn from both our special and circulating collections, whether a one-of-a-kind medieval manuscript or a twentieth-century popular novel with generations of student notes penciled inside. See the About page for more on the blog and to contact the editor.

Tag: Qurʾān

The Final Part of a Mamlūk Qurʾān Copy