Author
Kelly Tuttle, revised from Library Company of Philadelphia
Publication Date
According to a note on the recto: "the above was written in my presence by a negro m[a]nding[o] at Leoganne in January 1773 DuSimitiere"; written in January 1773
Publication Place
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Library Company
Subject
LCSH: Qurʼan | LCSH: Mandingo (African people) -- Religion | LCSH: Haiti | LCSH: Haiti -- Leoganne | Form/genre: Qurʼans | Keywords: Qurʼan | Keywords: Mandingo | Keywords: Arabic | Keywords: Paper | more | less
Type
Book
Language
ara,eng
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
1 leaf; 60 x 290 mm
Library
Digital Library of the Middle East
Record ID
aub-961.F.5d
Library Location
Library Company
Date
According to a note on the recto: "the above was written in my presence by a negro m[a]nding[o] at Leoganne in January 1773 DuSimitiere"; written in January 1773
Notes
تَخطِيط: Single long line in Arabic with a note in English underneath. | ملحوظة: Title supplied by cataloger. | ملحوظة: DuSimitiere, a Swiss-born historian, antiquarian, and artist, traveled and documented North America and the West Indies from the 1750s to 1770s. He settled in Philadelphia in 1774, and in 1782 opened the American Museum, which contained his collected antiquities. | ملاحظة البرنامج النصي: West African maghribī script in black ink; pointed. | ملخص: A copy of Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ (112) written on one line. The spelling is largely phonetic. | more | less
Parçası Olduğu
OPenn Manuscripts of the Muslim World: | https://openn.library.upenn.edu/html/muslimworld_contents.html