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

Title

al-Qurʼān.
القرآن

Other related names

• Wahbī, Muḥammad, scribe
  وهبي، محمد،
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 230
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13680006
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1081298956
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_230.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13680006

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1817 or 1818

Place

Turkey?

Summary

Complete late Ottoman copy of the Qurʼān. Folios 262-295 are copied on a lighter colored, more highly burnished paper.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from colophon (f. 303v).
   
• Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I111.
   

Extent

307 leaves : 136 x 88 (88 x 52) mm, bound to 137 x 90 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Non-European laid paper

Binding

Bound in red leather with flap. Embossed and gilded paper onlays of central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis, and corner pieces; the area around the onlays is also gilded. Gold tooled and ruled frame. Coordinating onlays and gilding on flap; gold tooled design of x-shapes and rules on inside fore-edge hinge. Bright pink paper doublure.

Layout

15 long lines; border-ruled.

Decoration

Gilt and polychrome (shades of blue, yellow, red) illuminated double-page opening (f. 1v-2r). Different types of floral marginal medallions mark text divisions and sajdah. Sūrah titles in white ink on a gold background with red tinged floral decorations at either end. Verse ends marked by gold roundels lined in black with orange centers outlined with six blue and orange dots. Textblock border-ruled in double gold, blue, red. Rubrications in red. Readings in red. Colophon is written on cloudbands above floral fill (f. 303v).

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Qurʼans
• Codices
• Illuminations
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Full covers
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Onlays (decoration)
• Manuscripts

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — al-Qurʼān.
• fol. 303v — Colophon

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 12r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 22r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 32r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 42r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 48r — Example of illuminated sūrah heading
• fol. 52r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 62r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 72r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 82r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 89r — Floral sajdah marker
• fol. 92r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 102r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 112r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 122r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 126v — Floral sajdah marker
• fol. 132r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 137r — Floral sajdah marker
• fol. 142r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 147r — Floral sajdah marker
• fol. 152r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 155v — Floral sajdah marker
• fol. 162r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 168r — Floral sajdah marker
• fol. 172r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 182r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 183v — Floral sajdah marker
• fol. 190v — Floral sajdah marker
• fol. 192r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 202r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 209r — Floral sajdah marker
• fol. 212r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 222r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 228r — Floral sajdah marker
• fol. 232r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 241r — Floral sajdah marker
• fol. 242r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 252r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 262r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 265r — Floral sajdah marker
• fol. 272r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 282r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 292r — Floral juz' marker
• fol. 296r — Floral sajdah marker
• fol. 300r — Floral sajdah marker
• fol. 303v — Floral fill