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 234
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13673627
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1080352251
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_234.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13673627

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

17-- or 18--

Place

Turkey?

Summary

Complete copy of the Qurʼān, written in at least three hands with varying page layout; also includes six replacement pages on rougher paper (f. 55-57, 59-61).

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I114.
   

Extent

281 foliated leaves : 210 x 145 (162 x 79) mm, bound to 210 x 150 mm

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Red leather with flap blind-stamped with central mandorla with two pendants along the vertical axis and frame with repeating pattern; flap is also stamped.

Layout

12 to 15 lines per page. Some pages, particularly near the beginning, have two lines of text in larger thuluth followed by four lines of text in smaller naskh, three lines in larger thuluth, four lines in smaller naskh and a final two lines in larger thuluth. Most pages have text of a uniform size.

Decoration

Matching illuminated headpieces in beige, pink and green on the first opening (f. 1v-2r). Sūrah headers in red ink. Rubrications in red. Readings in red. Verse endings marked by a red open circle or heart shape.

Script

Written in naskh and thuluth in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Early works to 1800
• Qurʼans
• Codices
• Illuminations
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Full covers
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Manuscripts

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Qurʼān].

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 2r — Illuminated headpiece