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

Title

Qurʼān selections and prayers.

Other related names

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

Call number

MS Or 96
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13554145
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1055792732
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_096.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13554145

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1850?

Place

India?

Summary

Excerpts from the Qurʼān and short prayers; likely a practice copy as script spacing, word divisions, and verse ending decorations are not regular.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

1 + 4 leaves +141 foliated leaves + 1 : 205 x 155 (150 x 110) mm, bound to 205 x 165 mm

Foliation

Modern western foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords on versos, lower left.

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Islamic binding. Full red leather binding with tooling and paper onlays. Fore-edge and envelope flap. Yellow paper endleaves, green paper envelope flap lining. Endbands with chevron-pattern secondary sewing.

Layout

4 long lines.

Decoration

Illumination includes a sequence of border frames, mostly unwritten, and incomplete, in red, black, blue, and green (f. 1v-4r), two in-text foliate banners in pale yellow (f. 20r, f. 118r), and a full-page finispiece (f. 139r), lobed roudels in red, yellow, and green often mark verse ends, but sometimes merely decorate the verses (see for example, f. 39r), or appear mid-verse (f. 67r, 69r, for example). Infill of red or yellow dots in some bismallāh headers (f. 79r, 81r, 90r, 128v).

Script

Bihari in black ink; pointed and vocalized; often cramped on the left margin or a word is split and continues on the following line.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   
• Name of previous owner (ṣāḥibah) has been pasted over (f. 1r).
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Manuscripts
• Codices
• Illuminations
• Prayers
• Full covers
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Onlays (decoration)
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Linings
• Endleaves
• Compound endbands
• Secondary sewing (endband techniques)

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — [Qurʼān selections and prayers].

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorative frame
• fol. 1v — Decorative frame with bismallāh
• fol. 139r — Illumination