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 83 - FOLIO/FLAT
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13610482
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1066258140
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_083.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13610482

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic and Persian

Origin

Date

between 1500 and 1699?

Summary

Portion of the Qurʼān containing the 23rd word of 2:283 to the 19th word of 6:81.

Notes

• Manuscript codex fragment.
   
• A leaf from another Qur'ān previously inserted in this manuscript has been removed and cataloged separately as MS Or 83a.
   

Extent

41 foliated leaves : 340 x 260 (300 x 190) mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto; leaf 5 is numbered as both 5 and 6; leaves 35 and 36 are both numbered 35.

Support

Non-European laid paper

Binding

Frame cover of dark leather with red leather sides, raised false bands, and gold tooling used as a wrapper for loose text leaves. There is no clear evidence that these leaves were formerly bound into the cover.

Layout

8 long lines with interlinear gloss.

Script

Written in thuluth in black ink; pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Detached leaves
• Qurʼans
• Manuscripts
• Frame covers
• Onlays
• Re-used (material)
• Early works to 1800

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [al-Qur'ān]: Selections
• fol. 1r — [al-Qur'ān].