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 190
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13673006
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1080321084
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_190.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13673006

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1600 and 1799?

Place

India?

Summary

Incomplete copy of the Qurʼān, from al-Kawthar (108) to the end (114) is missing. The first two folios are fragmentary with clean marginal repairs; much of the marginal decoration is lost.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I12.
   

Extent

341 leaves: 165 x 106 (120 x 65) mm, bound to 165 x 106 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Non-European laid paper

Binding

Item has no covers, though the quires are still bound together with orange thread.

Layout

13 long lines.

Decoration

Fragmentary polychrome (green, blue, red, black, pink) and gold illuminated dual-page opening (f. 1v-2r). Fragmentary gold vegetal marginal fill (f. 2v-3r); four complete floral marginal fill (f. 58v-59r, 78v-79r, 111v-112r, 275v-276). Text is written entirely on cloudbands with gold fill between the lines. Textblock is border ruled in gold and black. Page openings are ruled with a thin, gold frame. Sū̄rah titles appear in white ink on a gold background cartouche enclosed in a rectangle with light blue fill around the ends. Gold roundels mark verse endings. Gold circular and floral motif marginal medallions appear throughout to mark rukūʻ and text divisions. Readings marked in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Qurʼans
• Codices
• Illuminations
• Manuscripts
• Early works to 1800

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Qurʼān].

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2v — Dual page illuminated border
• fol. 3r — Dual page illuminated border
• fol. 3v — Example of circular marginal medallion
• fol. 5v — Circular marginal medallion
• fol. 5v — Example of floral motif marginal medallion
• fol. 9r — Floral motif marginal medallion
• fol. 36r — Example of sūrah heading decoration
• fol. 58v — Dual page illuminated border
• fol. 59r — Dual page illuminated border
• fol. 78v — Dual page illuminated border
• fol. 79r — Dual page illuminated border
• fol. 111v — Dual page illuminated border
• fol. 112r — Dual page illuminated border
• fol. 275v — Dual page illuminated border
• fol. 276r — Dual page illuminated border