Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Manuscripts [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian [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 copy of the Qurʼān with space for interlinear translation, though only one page has translation (f. 250r).

Notes

• Customs stamp solar dated 1312 (1934 CE) (f. 1r, 503v).
• Decoration: Gold and polychrome illuminated double-page openings at the beginning, middle, and end (f. 1v-2r, 227v-228r, 502v-503r); gold roundels mark verse endings; marginal medallions in gold mark text divisions; textblock border-ruled in black, red, blue, beige; lines ruled in beige; page-opening frame-ruled in blue; sūrah headings, readings, and rukūʻ markers in red.
• Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I122.
• Layout: 12 long lines; catchwords every verso lower left; border-ruled.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Item is undated; possibly produced in the 18th or 19th century.
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized; one page with nastaʻlīq in red ink; pointed.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 253.
• 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

Brown leather (Type III) with blind-tooled central star made of four intersecting lines; blind-tooled frame; gold-tooled frame; green and black marbled doublure.

Language note

Arabic with one page translated into Persian.

Provenance

Formerly owned by an ʻĪsá in the year 13[--] AH (stamp in ink, first front flyleaf recto).

Source acquisition

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

OCLC

1151770964

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