Description of Columbia University MS Or 317 - FOLIO: al-Qurʼān. Columbia University These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 317 - 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 317 - 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 from prayer at end (f. 299r). Persian customs stamps solar dated 1312 (1933 CE) (f. 1r, 299v) New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 317 - FOLIO 15002126 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1199095290 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_317.html https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15002126 Complete copy of the Qurʼān; pages were remounted into later paper frames. Arabic al-Qurʼān. القرآن scribe Tabrīzī, ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn, active 1602 تبريزى، علاء الدين، former owner Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 1v [al-Qurʹān]

inset paper

 ii, 299, i leaves : 302 x 203 (163 x 97) mm, bound to 308 x 210 x 65 mm Written in 14 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left; border-ruled. Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized; last two pages written in taʻlīq in black ink; pointed. Dual-page illuminated first opening in gold with blue, polychrome vines and leaves (f. 1r-2v); sūrah headings in white ink on gold background set into a blue rectangle with polychrome floral fill on either end; finispiece of gold leaves and vines around colophon (f. 299r); readings in red. Library notes in pencil Customs stamp Dual page illumination Dual page illumination Example of sūrah heading Customs stamp

Bound in lacquered boards, probably 19th century. Outside covers with black central mandorla with two pendants on vertical axis with gold floral designs set in dark red field also with gold floral fill, bordered by a set of five frames in gold and red. Inside covers feature a red field with central floral motif bordered by a floral line and framed in black with a repeating floral motif.

Copy completed in 1011 A.H. (1602 or 1603 CE) by ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn al-Tabrīzī (f. 299r).

1602 or 1603 Iran? Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934. Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith (library bookplate first flyleaf verso at front of book; signature in pencil second flyleaf recto at front of book). Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York Codices (bound manuscripts) Illuminations (painting) Lacquered bindings (Binding) Manuscripts (documents) Qurʼans