Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Manuscripts [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic [Browse]

Former owner

Plimpton, George A. (George Arthur), 1855-1936 [Browse]

Related name

Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) [Browse]

Summary note

Complete copy of the Qurʼān, written onto gold sprinkled paper with five larger lines per page between four sets of seven smaller lines.

Notes

• Decoration: Dual page illuminated first opening in blue, gold, orange (f. 1r-2v); gold foliate marginal fill on every page; textblock border-ruled in orange, blue, gold; pages gold-sprinkled; larger lines alternating red on a white field and black on a gold field; marginal section divisions and some sūrah titles in white ink on a gold field. The final page is gold-sprinkled, ruled and decorated, but unwritten (f. 62v).
• Layout: 33 lines per page.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: The item is undated, perhaps copied in the 19th century.
• Script: Written in naskh and thuluth, chiefly in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 271 - FOLIO.
• Title supplied by cataloger.

Location of originals

• Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Source of description

Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.

Binding note

Red leather over pasteboard; blind tooled interior and exterior frame with diagonal lines connecting the corners between them; marbled paper pastedowns.

Language note

Arabic.

Source acquisition

Gift of George Arthur Plimpton, 1936 (bookplate inside front and back covers).

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

OCLC

1106031443

Original language

[القرآن].

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