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

Title

al-Juzʼ al-ʻishrūn.
الجزء العشرون

Other related names

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

Call number

MS Or 240
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13680010
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1081299029
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_240.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13680010

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1850?

Summary

Complete section, containing the first word of 27:56 to the final word of 29:45.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from caption title.
   
• One volume of a Qurʼān in 30 parts, of which RBML holds five volumes under separate shelfmarks; see also MS Or. 239, 241, 242, and 243.
   

Extent

26 leaves : 240 x 160 (137 x 85) mm, bound to 244 x 166 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Brown-black leather with flap; blind-stamped central mandorla with traces of a gold ruled border and frame.

Layout

8 lines per page.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in gold and blue with green rules and title in white ink (f. 2v). Textblock is border-ruled. Sūrah titles and marginal text division notations in gold. Gold roundels mark verse endings. Readings in red.

Script

Written in neat naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized. Sūrah titles in thuluth.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Qurʼans
• Codices
• Illuminations
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Manuscripts

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — al-Juzʼ al-ʻishrūn.

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece