Details

Subject(s)

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

Former owner

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 [Browse]

Related name

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

Summary note

Complete section of the Qurʼān, containing the first word of 27:56 to the final word of 29:45. Lines and partial lines have been rewritten on paper and pasted onto the page, see for example, f. 9r-14r, inclusive.

Notes

• Arabic.
• Decoration: Gold and blue illuminated title (f. 1r). Gold eight petal rosettes with pink centers, lined in pink and blue dots mark verse endings. Sūrah titles in gold outlined in black.
• Manuscript codex.
• One volume of a Qur'ān set, of which RBML holds 3 volumes under separate shelfmarks; See also MSS Or. 256 and 257. This volume is bound in a different style and lacks the same waqf inscription found in the other two volumes.
• Origin: Item is undated, perhaps copied in the 15th to mid-16th centuries.
• Script: Written in mamluk style naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 258.
• Title from title page illumination (f. 1r).

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 with flap; blind stamped central mandorla with coordinating stamp on the flap and blind ruled frame. Bright blue paper doublure.

Language note

Layout: 5 long lines.

Source acquisition

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

OCLC

1081299092

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