Description of Columbia University. MS Or 240: al-Juzʼ al-ʻishrūn. Columbia University. These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 240: al-Juzʼ 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 240: al-Juzʼ 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 caption title. One volume of a Qurʼān in 30 parts, of which RBML holds five volumes under separate shelfmarks; see also MS Or. 239, 241, 242, and 243. New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 240 13680010 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1081299029 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_240.html https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13680010 Complete section, containing the first word of 27:56 to the final word of 29:45. Arabic al-Juzʼ al-ʻishrūn. الجزء العشرون former owner Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 1v al-Juzʼ al-ʻishrūn.

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 26 leaves : 240 x 160 (137 x 85) mm, bound to 244 x 166 mm 8 lines per page. Written in neat naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized. Sūrah titles in thuluth. Illuminated headpiece in gold and blue with green rules and title in white ink (f. 2v). Textblock is border-ruled. Sūrah titles and marginal text division notations in gold. Gold roundels mark verse endings. Readings in red. Illuminated headpiece

Brown-black leather with flap; blind-stamped central mandorla with traces of a gold ruled border and frame.

Item is undated, likely copied in the mid-18th to mid-19th century.

between 1750 and 1850? Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934. Manuscripts, Arabic Qurʼans Codices Illuminations Envelope flaps (features) Blind tooled (decoration) Manuscripts