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

Title

al-Qurʼān
[القرآن]

Other related names

• Khawāfī, Burhān ibn Waḥīd, active 1537, scribe
  خوافي، برهان بن وحيد،
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 249
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14974250
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1196044621
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_249.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14974250

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1537

Summary

Complete copy of the Qurʼān, many leaves repaired along edges.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I129.
   

Extent

410 leaves : 186 x 121 (120 x 74) mm, bound to 190 x 137 mm

Support

Non-European laid paper

Binding

Brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, includes partial envelope flap with blind stamped inscription; doublures stencilled in red; pastedowns across the envelope flap indicate binding repair in or after 1311 A.H. (1893-94 CE).

Layout

Written in 11 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Decoration

Blue, gold, and red illuminated dual-page first opening (f. 1v-2r); gold roundels with pink and blue dots mark verse endings; sūrah headings in gold; textblock border-ruled in gold and blue.

Script

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

Provenance

• Presumed to be a 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)
• Flap bindings (Binding)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Qurʿān]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 5v — Examle of marginal ḥizb marker
• fol. 54v — Example of marginal juzʾ marker
• fol. 344v — Example of surah heading