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

Title

al-Juzʼ al-thālith ʻashar.
الجزء الثالث عشر

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 237
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13673634
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1080352432
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_237.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13673634

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1300 and 1499?

Place

Syria or Egypt?

Summary

Complete part 13 of a 30 part copy of the Qurʼān containing verses 12:53 to 14:52.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from illuminated heading on first opening (f. 1v-2r).
   

Extent

28 foliated leaves : 265 x 175 (195 x 125) mm, bound to 266 x 184 mm

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Brown leather with flap blind stamped with central mandorla and blind ruled frame; flap is also stamped.

Layout

7 long lines.

Decoration

Gold and blue illuminated header and footer with the title in white on a gold background with gold flowers on blue backgrounds on each end and a circular medallion in blue and gold extending into the margin next to the header; first opening is also border-ruled in blue and gold (f. 1v-2r). Sūrah titles in white ink on gold illuminated background lined in blue with blue and gold medallions in the margin. Text divisions marked in gold in the margin. Gold roundels mark verse endings.

Script

Written in widely spaced naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — al-Juzʼ al-thālith ʻashar.

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated header and footer
• fol. 2r — Illuminated header and footer
• fol. 11r — Sūrah heading