Description of Columbia University. MS Or 214: al-Qurʼān Columbia University. These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 214: 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 214: 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 I142. Customs stamp solar dated 1312/1934 (f. 1r, 537v) New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 214 14258953 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1112158868 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_214.html https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14258953 Small, complete copy of the Qurʼān in a color-contrast inset paper technique. Arabic al-Qurʼān [القرآن] former owner Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 1v [al-Qurʼān]

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 i, 546, iii foliated leaves : 93 x 60 (51 x 28) mm, bound to 96 x 60 x 36 mm 11 lines per page; catchwords every verso, lower left. Written chiefly in naskh in black ink with sūrah titles in thuluth; pointed and vocalized. Inset leaves so textblock is a lighter color; dual page illuminated first opening with the first sūrah written on a scalloped medallion lined in black with white flowers between each line, surrounding the medallion are flowers and vines in pink, purple, red, and green with an outside marginal illumination of a scalloped design chiefly in gold and blue with red, blue and purple flowers; sūrah headings are in a blue-lined rectangle, written in white ink lined in black on a gold background with polychrome vine and leaf designs; text divisions are marked by marginal medallions in gold and blue; verse endings marked by gold roundels; textblock border-ruled in gold and blue and page-opening frame-ruled in double black; readings in red. Description of manuscript in pencil Customs stamp Dual page illumination Dual page illumination Example of marginal medallion Example of sūrah heading Customs stamp Notations in pencil

Lacquered covers; outside covers have gold flowers and vines on a black field with a frame of gold vines; inside covers are black with two gold painted frames around a central shape of a rectangle with quarter circles taken out of each corner and a half circle taken out of each long side.

Item is undated; likely copied in the 18th century or 19th century.

17--?-18--? Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934. Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York Codices (bound manuscripts) Manuscripts (documents) Qurʼans Illuminations (painting) Lacquered bindings (Binding)