Description of Columbia University. MS Or 169 - FOLIO: al-Qurʼān. Columbia University. These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 169 - FOLIO: al-Qurʼān. 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 169 - FOLIO: al-Qurʼān.. 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 supplied by cataloger. Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I157. New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 169 - FOLIO 13673000 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1080313852 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_169.html https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13673000 Incomplete copy of the Qurʼān with interlinear Persian translation containing the last four words of 16:126 to the end (114:6). A few leaves have been replaced and rewritten in two different hands (f. 5, f. 243-247). Most leaves have been repaired along the outside edges, obscuring some marginal notations. Arabic with translation in Persian al-Qurʼān. [القرآن] former owner Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 1r [al-Qurʼān].

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 i, 247 leaves : 300 x 240 (250 x 180) mm, bound to 310 x 245 mm Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords have been added to some versos, lower left. 10 long lines with 10 interlinear lines. Written chiefly in muḥaqqaq with titles in thuluth; replacement pages in naskh with Persian translation in nastaʻliq. Rubrications and translation in red. Red and white, or sometimes red and green knot motif marginal medallions. Red open circles mark verse ends. Sūrah titles in green, except in the replacement pages where they are red. Library note in English Owner's stamp Example of knot motif marginal medallion

Brown-black leather with blind-stamped central mandorla with two pendants along the vertical axis.

Copy completed in 1234 AH (f. 247r).

1818 or 1819 Iran or South Asia? Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934. Customs stamp solar dated 1312/1934 (f. 1r, 247v); owner's stamp (Flyleaf 1r). Sold by Mottahedeh Resht (trademark pasted into inside front cover). Manuscripts, Arabic Manuscripts, Persian Qurʼans Codices Blind tooled (decoration) Stamps (Provenance) Manuscripts Early works to 1800