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

Title

al-Qurʼān.
[القرآن]

Other related names

• Friedman, Harry G. 1881-, former owner
• Friedman, Harry G. 1881-, donor

Call number

MS Or 418
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14214033
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1108337889
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_418.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14214033

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

12--?

Summary

Portion of the Qurʼān beginning with the first word of Yūnus verse 61 (10:61) and ending in the sixth word of Hūd 110 (11:110).

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   

Extent

39 leaves : 110 x 170 (85 x 135) mm, bound to 113 x 175 mm

Support

Parchment

Binding

Bound in red leather over pasteboard with faint, blind-tooled double frame.

Layout

9 long lines.

Decoration

Dual-page illumination on the first page-opening in gold, red and black (f. 1v-2r); circular flower motifs in gold, blue and red mark every tenth verse; sūrah headings in gold with marginal medallions in gold, red and blue; occasional letter in gold.

Script

Written in Early Abbasid (Kufic) in heavy black ink; some diacritics in red and green points.

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Qurʼans
• Illuminations (painting)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 2v — [al-Qurʼān].

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Dual page illumination
• fol. 2r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 4v — Verse marker
• fol. 7r — Verse marker
• fol. 9v — Verse marker
• fol. 12r — Verse marker
• fol. 14r — Sūrah heading (Hūd)
• fol. 16v — Verse marker
• fol. 19v — Verse marker
• fol. 22r — Verse marker
• fol. 24v — Verse marker
• fol. 27r — Verse marker
• fol. 29v — Verse marker
• fol. 31r — Verse marker
• fol. 33v — Verse marker
• fol. 36v — Verse marker
• fol. 38v — Verse marker