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

Title

al-Qurʼān.
[القرآن]

Other related names

• Friedman, Harry G. 1881-, former owner
• Rifqī, Muṣṭafá, active 1809, scribe
  رفقي، مصطفى،
• Sayyid ʻUthmān, Dāmād Ibrāhīm al-ʻAfīf, -1805, associated name
  سيد عثمان،

Call number

MS Or 416
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14214030
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1108337665
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_416.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14214030

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1809

Place

Turkey?

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Iii, 294, iii leaves : 161 x 102 (115 x 65) mm, bound to 162 x 110 mm

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Brown leather over pasteboard with flap (detached); gold-tooled diaper grid of squares made of double arrow patterns with central dots surround by a double frame; bright yellow embossed paper doublure.

Layout

15 lines per page.

Decoration

Double page illuminated first opening in blue and gold with red and blue finials and text on cloudbands (f. 1v-2r); gold, slightly lobed circular medallions divided into six sections mark verse endings; medallions of gold, light blue, and red in several shapes including teardrop, sun, and star-shape in the margins mark section divisions; sūrah headings are white ink on a gold cartouche with foliate fill around the ends in gold and red; readings in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Gift of Harry G. Friedman (library donation bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Qurʼans
• Illuminations (painting)
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Envelope flaps (features)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 294r — Colophon

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplates
• fol. 4v — Example of polychrome ḥizb marker
• fol. 6v — Example of polychrome niṣf marker
• fol. 12r — Example of polychrome juz' marker
• fol. 26r — Example of polychrome sūrah heading
• Flap — Detached recto
• Flap — Detached verso
• Flap — Detached recto
• Flap — Detached verso