Description of Columbia University. MS Or 94: al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ wa-al-ʻishrūn. Columbia University. These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 94: al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ wa-al-ʻishrūn. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 94: al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ wa-al-ʻishrūn.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Manuscript codex. Title from inscription (f. 1r). New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 94 13554143 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1055792812 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_094.html https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13554143 One part of a 30-part Qur'ān of which RBML holds fifteen volumes under separate shelfmarks (MSS Or. 94, 98-105, 107-110, 112-114). This is the only volume to contain a colophon (f. 37r); completed on the first day of A.H. 1086 (1675); scribe's name is not included. This volume contains from verse 32 of al-Zumar to verse 46 of Fuṣṣilat, 39:32-41:46. Arabic al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ wa-al-ʻishrūn. الجزء الرابع والعشرون former owner Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 1r Al-Juzʿ al-rābiʿ wa-al-ʿishrūn

non-European laid paper

 38 foliated leaves : 215 x 155 (160 x 95) mm, bound to 205 x 155 x 15 mm 7 long lines. Written in naskh in black ink; pointed; fully vocalized.

Islamic binding. Full brown leather with blind tooling and central mandorla. Fore-edge and envelope flap. Separate pastedowns of marbled paper with stubs extending across the joints and marbled paper flap linings. Endbands with chevron-pattern secondary sewing.

Copy finished 1 Muḥarram A.H. 1086.

1675 Turkey or Syria? Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934. Manuscripts, Arabic Manuscripts Codices Qurʼans Islamic bindings (Binding) Full covers Blind tooled (decoration) Envelope flaps (features) Separate pastedowns Linings Trough-marbled paper Compound endbands Secondary sewing (endband techniques) Early works to 1800