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

Title

al-Juzʼ al-ʻishrūn.
الجزء العشرون

Other related names

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

Call number

MS Or 258
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13680014
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1081299092
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_258.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13680014

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Layout: 5 long lines

Origin

Date

between 1400 and 1550?

Place

Syria or Turkey?

Summary

Complete section of the Qurʼān, containing the first word of 27:56 to the final word of 29:45. Lines and partial lines have been rewritten on paper and pasted onto the page, see for example, f. 9r-14r, inclusive.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from title page illumination (f. 1r).
   
• Arabic.
   
• One volume of a Qur'ān set, of which RBML holds 3 volumes under separate shelfmarks; See also MSS Or. 256 and 257. This volume is bound in a different style and lacks the same waqf inscription found in the other two volumes.
   

Extent

38 leaves : 179 x 131 (115 x 82) mm, bound to 183 x 136 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Red leather with flap; blind stamped central mandorla with coordinating stamp on the flap and blind ruled frame. Bright blue paper doublure.

Decoration

Gold and blue illuminated title (f. 1r). Gold eight petal rosettes with pink centers, lined in pink and blue dots mark verse endings. Sūrah titles in gold outlined in black.

Script

Written in mamluk style naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• 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-Juzʼ al-ʻishrūn.
• fol. 7r — Qaṣaṣ
• fol. 28r — ʿAnkabūt

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated title page
• fol. 7r — Gold sūrah heading
• fol. 28r — Gold sūrah heading