Collection ID: 0033 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

al-Qurʼān
[القرآن]

Authors

• Arabic Manuscripts Collection (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)

Other related names

• Sayyid Muṣṭafá, active 1849, scribe
  سيد مصطفى،
• ʻAlāʼī, Ḥasan al-Ḥusaynī, active 18th century-19th century, associated name
  علائي، حسن الحسيني،

Call number

UTS MS Arab. 5
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14974382
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1196047469
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0033/html/uts_ms_005_arabic.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14974382

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1849 or 1850

Place

Turkey?

Summary

A late Ottoman copy of the Qurʼān; the first folio is missing, text begins at 2:17 (f. 1r). Includes a brief closing prayer (f. 302r).

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Ii, 302, i foliated leaves : 178 x 115 (117 x 58) mm, bound to 178 x 124 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in red leather with flap (Type II), gold tooled central diapered field and border register; bright green paper doublure, front doublure partially removed.

Layout

Written in 15 long lines.

Decoration

Textblock border-ruled in gold and red; gold roundels with four dots mark verse endings; floral marginal medallions mark text divisions; surah headings in white ink on a gold background; readings in red; illuminated colophon in polylobed medallion with polychrome flowers (f. 302v).

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Flap bindings
• Qurʼans
• Illuminations (painting)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [al-Qurʼān]

Decorations

• fol. 20r — Example of marginal medallion
• fol. 256v — Example of surah heading
• fol. 302v — Illuminated colophon