Details

Subject(s)

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

Associated name

• Bakrī, al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá [Browse]

Related name

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

Former owner

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

Summary note

Complete section of the Qurʼān containing the first word of 9:93 to the final word of 10:109.

Notes

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

Brown leather with flap; blind tooled central roundel and blind tooled and ruled border. Doublure of silhouette patterned paper.

Language note

Layout: 5 lines per page.

Provenance

Given as a waqf (charitable endowment) for al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá al-Bakrī (inscription on f. 1r).

Source acquisition

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

OCLC

1081299145

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