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 214
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14258953
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1112158868
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_214.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14258953

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

17--?-18--?

Summary

Small, complete copy of the Qurʼān in a color-contrast inset paper technique.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I142.
   
• Customs stamp solar dated 1312/1934 (f. 1r, 537v)
   

Extent

I, 546, iii foliated leaves : 93 x 60 (51 x 28) mm, bound to 96 x 60 x 36 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Lacquered covers; outside covers have gold flowers and vines on a black field with a frame of gold vines; inside covers are black with two gold painted frames around a central shape of a rectangle with quarter circles taken out of each corner and a half circle taken out of each long side.

Layout

11 lines per page; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Decoration

Inset leaves so textblock is a lighter color; dual page illuminated first opening with the first sūrah written on a scalloped medallion lined in black with white flowers between each line, surrounding the medallion are flowers and vines in pink, purple, red, and green with an outside marginal illumination of a scalloped design chiefly in gold and blue with red, blue and purple flowers; sūrah headings are in a blue-lined rectangle, written in white ink lined in black on a gold background with polychrome vine and leaf designs; text divisions are marked by marginal medallions in gold and blue; verse endings marked by gold roundels; textblock border-ruled in gold and blue and page-opening frame-ruled in double black; readings in red.

Script

Written chiefly in naskh in black ink with sūrah titles in thuluth; pointed and vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Qurʼān]

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 recto — Description of manuscript in pencil
• fol. 1r — Customs stamp
• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 6r — Example of marginal medallion
• fol. 62v — Example of sūrah heading
• fol. 537v — Customs stamp