Collection ID: 0033 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

al-Qurʼān.
[القرآن]

Authors

• Arabic Manuscripts Collection (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)

Call number

UTS MS Arab. 2
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14974301
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1196044951
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0033/html/uts_ms_002_arabic.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14974301

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Arabic with some notes in Persian

Origin

Date

16--?-17--?

Summary

Complete copy of the Qurʼān, likely extensively repaired at a later date. Many pages in the second half of the volume are written on slightly orange-tinted paper and inset into lighter frames. Additional leaves at the end of the volume include prayers (f. 405-412).

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

I, 412, i leaves : 226 x 136 (152 x 78) mm, bound to 234 x 152 x 58 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. Hindu-Arabic numeral folio numbers added in ink, upper center recto with sūrah header and juzʼ number on upper right verso. References in the record are to the modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Red leather with envelope flap (Type II); gilded onlay border and flap decoration.

Layout

Written in 12 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left; border-ruled.

Decoration

Faint traces of a frontispiece with central shamsah (f. 2r); dual-page illuminated first opening in blue and gold containing sūrat al-Fātiḥah (f. 2v-3r). Polychrome illuminated headpiece (f. 3v) at the top of the beginning of sūrat al-Baqarah with the text of the full opening on cloudbands with gold, foliate marginal fill (f. 3v-4r). Surah headings in gold; gold roundels mark verse endings,

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Square seal (f. 403v).
   

Subjects topical

• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Qurʼans
• Onlays (decorative components)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 2v — [al-Qurʼān].

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Notations in ink
• fol. 2v — Dual-page illumination
• fol. 3r — Dual page illumination
• fol. 3v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 3v — Marginal fill
• fol. 3v — Cloudbands
• fol. 4r — Marginal fill
• fol. 4r — Cloudbands
• fol. 240r — Example of surah heading