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 253
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14835029
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1151770964
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_253.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14835029

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Arabic with one page translated into Persian

Origin

Date

17--?-18--?

Place

Iran or India?

Summary

Complete copy of the Qurʼān with space for interlinear translation, though only one page has translation (f. 250r).

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Customs stamp solar dated 1312 (1934 CE) (f. 1r, 503v).
   
• Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I122.
   

Extent

Iii + 503 leaves : 195 x 124 (142 x 77) mm, bound to 202 x 125 mm

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Brown leather (Type III) with blind-tooled central star made of four intersecting lines; blind-tooled frame; gold-tooled frame; green and black marbled doublure.

Layout

12 long lines; catchwords every verso lower left; border-ruled.

Decoration

Gold and polychrome illuminated double-page openings at the beginning, middle, and end (f. 1v-2r, 227v-228r, 502v-503r); gold roundels mark verse endings; marginal medallions in gold mark text divisions; textblock border-ruled in black, red, blue, beige; lines ruled in beige; page-opening frame-ruled in blue; sūrah headings, readings, and rukūʻ markers in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized; one page with nastaʻlīq in red ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   
• Formerly owned by an ʻĪsá in the year 13[--] AH (stamp in ink, first front flyleaf recto).
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Qurʼans
• Illuminations (painting)
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Full covers

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Qurʼān]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• fol. 1r — Customs stamp
• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 6v — Example of marginal medallion
• fol. 103v — Example of sūrah heading
• fol. 227v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 228r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 502v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 503r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 503v — Customs stamp