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

Title

al-Qurʼān.
القرآن

Other related names

• Shukrī, ʻAlī, scribe
  شكري، علي.
• ʻAlī ibn Ḥamzah, illuminator
  علي بن حمزة.
• ʻAlī ibn Ḥamzah, binder
  علي بن حمزة.
• American Type Founders Company. Typographic Library and Museum, former owner

Call number

MS Or 318
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13806448
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1090643795
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_318.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13806448

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1799 or 1800

Place

Turkey

Summary

Complete copy of the Qurʼān with illuminations and gilding.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from colophon (f. 346r).
   

Extent

346 leaves : 183 x 117 (126 x 72) mm, bound to 183 x 123 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in gold and red stamped brown morocco over pasteboard with flap. Covers have gilt stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces all with red floral interior. The area between the mandorla and the cornerpieces is in relief. Gilt stamped frame with red floral fill and six red florets outlined in relief. Inside covers are red leather with gilt stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis, conerpieces, and frame. Endleaves of silver speckled, yellow paper. Front cover and flap are detached.

Layout

15 long lines; border-ruled.

Decoration

Textblock border-ruled in double gold, blue and red. Rubrications in red. Dual-page polychrome illuminated first page-opening with text on cloudbands and blue and red floral radial line in the margins (f. 1v-2r). Polychrome gilded floral sunset and star-shaped medallions in the margins. Gilded polychrome sūrah headings with text in white ink. Gold roundels with pink and blue dots mark verse endings. Gilded polychrome floral designs and cloudbands around colophon (f. 346r)

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Purchased from the Typographic Library and Museum of the American Type Founders Company in 1941.
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Qurʼans
• Full covers
• Envelope flaps (features)

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — al-Qurʹān.

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 7r — Example of polychrome text division marker
• fol. 12v — Example of polychrome text division marker
• fol. 27r — Example of polychrome sūrah heading
• fol. 346r — Illuminated tailpiece