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 248
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13680011
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1081299091
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_248.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13680011

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1899?

Place

Iran or Turkey?

Summary

Complete copy of the Qurʼān, followed by a short prayer.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I118.
   

Extent

256 leaves : 210 x 131 (158 x 81) mm, bound to 219 x 137 mm

Support

Non-European laid paper

Binding

Lacquer black leather with floral painted central mandorla and two pendants on the vertical axis in shades of orange and red; frame of double rules. Light pink paper doublure.

Layout

18 long lines; border-ruled. Catchwords every verso, lower left.

Decoration

Gold and polychrome (blue, green, red, orange) illuminated double-page first opening (f. 1v-2r). Textblock border ruled in red, gold, blue; page-opening frame ruled in black. Decorative motif of gold medallion with blue floriate sprays and finials appear diagonally in the upper outer corner of each page, connecting the two sets of rules. More elaborate versions of the medallion also appear in the margins to mark text divisions. Sū̄rah headings in red on cloudbands. Three red dots mark verse endings. Readings in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   
• Customs stamp solar dated 1312/1934 (f. 1r, 255v). Owner's notes possibly dated 1241 (1825) (f. 1r).
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Qurʼans
• Codices
• Illuminations
• Lacquered bindings (Binding)
• Painted (decoration)
• Manuscripts

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Qurʼān].

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Owner notations
• fol. 1r — Library notes in English
• fol. 1r — Customs stamp
• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 4r — Example of polychrome text division marker
• fol. 5v — Example of polychrome text division marker