Description of Columbia University. MS Or 416: al-Qurʼān. Columbia University. These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 416: 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 416: 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. New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 416 14214030 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1108337665 http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_416.html https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14214030 Arabic al-Qurʼān. [القرآن] former owner Friedman, Harry G. 1881- scribe Rifqī, Muṣṭafá, active 1809 رفقي، مصطفى، associated name Sayyid ʻUthmān, Dāmād Ibrāhīm al-ʻAfīf, -1805 سيد عثمان، [2r] [al-Qurʼān]. 294r Colophon

laid paper

 iii, 294, iii leaves : 161 x 102 (115 x 65) mm, bound to 162 x 110 mm 15 lines per page. Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized. Double page illuminated first opening in blue and gold with red and blue finials and text on cloudbands (f. 1v-2r); gold, slightly lobed circular medallions divided into six sections mark verse endings; medallions of gold, light blue, and red in several shapes including teardrop, sun, and star-shape in the margins mark section divisions; sūrah headings are white ink on a gold cartouche with foliate fill around the ends in gold and red; readings in red. Library bookplates Dual page Illumination Dual page Illumination Example of polychrome ḥizb marker Example of polychrome niṣf marker Example of polychrome juz' marker Example of polychrome sūrah heading Detached recto Detached verso

Brown leather over pasteboard with flap (detached); gold-tooled diaper grid of squares made of double arrow patterns with central dots surround by a double frame; bright yellow embossed paper doublure.

Copy completed on 11 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 1224 AH (12 July 1809) by Muṣṭafá Rifqī, a student of al-Sayyid ʻUthmān, al-maʻrūf bi-Dāmād Ibrāhīm al-ʻAfīf (f. 294r).

1809 Turkey? Gift of Harry G. Friedman (library donation bookplate inside front cover). Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York Codices (bound manuscripts) Manuscripts (documents) Qurʼans Illuminations (painting) Islamic bindings (Binding) Envelope flaps (features)