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Koran/Qur'an (Arabic)
- Date
- [not after 1789]
- Reference
- MSR-32
- Description
Note in Arabic in a different hand on verso of front flyleaf: [One] must consider a sacrifice for a new-born, on the seventh day after birth. The rules are to sacrifice two sheep if the child is a boy and one if it is a girl. [Reportedly] the prophet [Mohammad] 'peace upon him' sacrificed for himself when he was chosen [by god as a prophet]. He [the prophet] says [while slaughtering the sheep] 'O God! This sacrifice is for my son (the name of the child); its flesh for his flesh, its skin for his skin, and its hair (wool) for his hair. O God! Please consider it as redemption from hell for my son'. And he does not break any of the sacrifice's bones; and gifts the midwife its thigh; or [gives the sacrifice] for cooking a 'Jadwal' without breaking any of its bones; and he makes a donation. He does so on either the seventh [day after birth] or the fourteenth or twenty first. And [also] he kisses the child's head and donates a 'Waraqa' and a 'Zenan'. (Source: al-Shari'ato Fi Khazanat al-Rwayat').
[The nouns Jadwal, Waraqa, and Zenan, appear to be obsolete, but suggested meanings are: Jadwal, a type of dish cooked in rituals. Waraqa, a unit of money or wealth. Zenan, object with either nutritious or financial value commonly used for donation.] Translation by Ali Mazraeh.
The endleaves following the Qur'an text contain a poem in Persian added in a later hand. The poetry discusses fortune telling practices by using the Qur'an.
There is some loss of colophon text, including the year of copying, in a later gutter repair. Remaining text establishes that copying was completed on the afternoon of Thursday, 18th of the month Dhu al-Qi'dah [the 11th month of the Islamic calendar]. On the same page the scribe included a prayer for blessing the completion of this Qur'an. The prayer includes short verses from the Qur'an as well as additional notes by the scribe.
Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Physical Description: Paper, 438 leaves, bound; 162 x 100 mm.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Digital image of incipit pages available. Also available on microfilm (MS-Copy-0220-1)
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Bible Society in New Zealand : Religious manuscripts
- Format
- 1 volume(s), Illuminated manuscripts, Paper, 438 leaves, bound; 162 x 100 mm., Binding: Islamic leather binding (without flap), rebacked; blind stamped in Persian style; contained in leather satchel. Central motif on upper cover has date 1168 (Solar Islamic calendar; which is 1789 on the Gregorian calendar)., Decoration: Text in red and black; pages ruled in blue and gold; incipit pages illuminated in blue and gold. Slight cropping at head of pages. Qur'anic annotations in red and black ink.
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