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 179
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13619030
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1077188270
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_179.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13619030

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1850?

Summary

Complete copy of the Qurʼān.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I138.
   

Extent

304 leaves : 175 x 115 (120 x 63) mm, bound to 175 x 125 x 37 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Bound in brown leather with gold tooled central diaper grid pattern with frame in rope-work design. Pink paper doublure.

Layout

15 long lines; border-ruled.

Decoration

Textblock is border-ruled in gold, black, red. First opening has dual-page illumination in gold, pink, blue with text in round medallion. Marginal medallions in vivid colors appear throughout and mark text divisions. Gold roundels with yellow and red dots mark verse endings. Sūrah headings in white ink on gold background. Readings in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Codices
• Illuminations
• Qurʼans
• Full covers
• Manuscripts
• Early works to 1800

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Qurʿān]

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 4v — Example of polychrome ḥizb marker
• fol. 7r — Example of polychrome niṣf marker
• fol. 12r — Example of polychrome juz marker
• fol. 172r — Floral sūrah heading
• fol. 182r — Elongated floral verse marker
• fol. 221r — Floral sūrah heading
• fol. 252r — Floral sūrah heading
• fol. 254v — Floral sūrah heading
• fol. 266v — Elongated floral verse marker
• fol. 267r — Elongated floral verse markers
• fol. 272r — Floral sūrah heading
• fol. 282r — Floral sūrah heading
• fol. 292r — Floral sūrah heading
• fol. 299r — Elongated floral verse marker
• fol. 302v — Floral sūrah heading
• fol. 303v — Illuminated finispiece