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

Title

al-Qurʼān.
القرآن

Other related names

• Tabrīzī, ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn, active 1602, scribe
  تبريزى، علاء الدين،
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 317 - FOLIO
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 15002126
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1199095290
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_317.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15002126

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1602 or 1603

Place

Iran?

Summary

Complete copy of the Qurʼān; pages were remounted into later paper frames.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title from prayer at end (f. 299r).
   
• Persian customs stamps solar dated 1312 (1933 CE) (f. 1r, 299v)
   

Extent

Ii, 299, i leaves : 302 x 203 (163 x 97) mm, bound to 308 x 210 x 65 mm

Support

Inset paper

Binding

Bound in lacquered boards, probably 19th century. Outside covers with black central mandorla with two pendants on vertical axis with gold floral designs set in dark red field also with gold floral fill, bordered by a set of five frames in gold and red. Inside covers feature a red field with central floral motif bordered by a floral line and framed in black with a repeating floral motif.

Layout

Written in 14 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left; border-ruled.

Decoration

Dual-page illuminated first opening in gold with blue, polychrome vines and leaves (f. 1r-2v); sūrah headings in white ink on gold background set into a blue rectangle with polychrome floral fill on either end; finispiece of gold leaves and vines around colophon (f. 299r); readings in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized; last two pages written in taʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   
• Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith (library bookplate first flyleaf verso at front of book; signature in pencil second flyleaf recto at front of book).
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Lacquered bindings (Binding)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Qurʼans

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Qurʹān]

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Customs stamp
• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 37v — Example of sūrah heading
• fol. 299v — Customs stamp