Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

al-Qurʼān.
القرآن

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 91
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13554142
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1055792625
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_091.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13554142

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1776

Place

Iran?

Summary

Complete copy of the Qur'ān in an inset, color-contrast paper technique.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from colophon (f. 199r).
   
• Former shelfmark: X893.7K84 I112.
   

Extent

199 numbered leaves : 185 x 117 (130 x 65) mm. bound to 185 x 115 x 20 mm

Foliation

Contains catchwords on the outer frame and folio numbers on the lower left corner of each inset verso. Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto. References in the record are to modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Islamic binding. Painted lacquer over pasteboards with leather spine. Endbands with chevron-pattern secondary sewing.

Layout

18 long lines.

Decoration

Polychrome [red, blue, green] and gold illuminated frontispiece (f. 3v-4r) with text in cloudbands; polychrome [gold, red, blue] marginal verse markers; textblock border ruled [gold, black]; page openings framed in black rules; readings in red and chapter titles in gold; gold roundels with red and blue dots mark verse endings.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   
• Customs stamp dated A.H. 1312 (1895) (f. 3r).
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Manuscripts
• Codices
• Illuminations
• Qurʼans
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Lacquered bindings (Binding)
• Pasteboards
• Compound endbands
• Secondary sewing (endband techniques)
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Early works to 1800

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — al-Qurʾān

Decorations

• fol. 2r — Illuminated borders and text