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, containing the first word of 27:56 to the final word of 29:45.

Notes

• Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold and blue with green rules and title in white ink (f. 2v). Textblock is border-ruled. Sūrah titles and marginal text division notations in gold. Gold roundels mark verse endings. Readings in red.
• Layout: 8 lines per page.
• Manuscript codex.
• One volume of a Qurʼān in 30 parts, of which RBML holds five volumes under separate shelfmarks; see also MS Or. 239, 241, 242, and 243.
• Origin: Item is undated, likely copied in the mid-18th to mid-19th century.
• Script: Written in neat naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized. Sūrah titles in thuluth.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 240.
• Title from caption title.

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-black leather with flap; blind-stamped central mandorla with traces of a gold ruled border and frame.

Language note

Arabic.

Source acquisition

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

OCLC

1081299029

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