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

Title

al-Qurʼān.
[القرآن]

Other related names

• Plimpton, George A. 1855-1936, former owner

Call number

MS Or 271 - FOLIO
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14011086
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1106031443
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_271.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14011086

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

18--?

Place

Iran?

Summary

Complete copy of the Qurʼān, written onto gold sprinkled paper with five larger lines per page between four sets of seven smaller lines.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Vii, 62, viii leaves : 336 x 220 (280 x 163) mm, bound to 345 x 229 mm

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Red leather over pasteboard; blind tooled interior and exterior frame with diagonal lines connecting the corners between them; marbled paper pastedowns.

Layout

33 lines per page.

Decoration

Dual page illuminated first opening in blue, gold, orange (f. 1r-2v); gold foliate marginal fill on every page; textblock border-ruled in orange, blue, gold; pages gold-sprinkled; larger lines alternating red on a white field and black on a gold field; marginal section divisions and some sūrah titles in white ink on a gold field. The final page is gold-sprinkled, ruled and decorated, but unwritten (f. 62v).

Script

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

Provenance

• Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936 (bookplate inside front and back covers).
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Qurʼans
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Blind tooled (decoration)

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Qurʼān].

Decorations

• Inside Front Cover — Bookplate: "George A. Plimpton"
• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 1v — Foliate marginal fill (every page)
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination
• Inside back cover — Bookplate: "George A. Plimpton"