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 169 - FOLIO
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13673000
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1080313852
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_169.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13673000

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic with translation in Persian

Origin

Date

1818 or 1819

Place

Iran or South Asia?

Summary

Incomplete copy of the Qurʼān with interlinear Persian translation containing the last four words of 16:126 to the end (114:6). A few leaves have been replaced and rewritten in two different hands (f. 5, f. 243-247). Most leaves have been repaired along the outside edges, obscuring some marginal notations.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I157.
   

Extent

I, 247 leaves : 300 x 240 (250 x 180) mm, bound to 310 x 245 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords have been added to some versos, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown-black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla with two pendants along the vertical axis.

Layout

10 long lines with 10 interlinear lines.

Decoration

Rubrications and translation in red. Red and white, or sometimes red and green knot motif marginal medallions. Red open circles mark verse ends. Sūrah titles in green, except in the replacement pages where they are red.

Script

Written chiefly in muḥaqqaq with titles in thuluth; replacement pages in naskh with Persian translation in nastaʻliq.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   
• Customs stamp solar dated 1312/1934 (f. 1r, 247v); owner's stamp (Flyleaf 1r).
   
• Sold by Mottahedeh Resht (trademark pasted into inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, Persian

Genres

• Qurʼans
• Codices
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Manuscripts
• Early works to 1800

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [al-Qurʼān].

Decorations

• fol. 2r — Example of knot motif marginal medallion