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 copy of the Qurʼān, written in at least three hands with varying page layout; also includes six replacement pages on rougher paper (f. 55-57, 59-61).

Notes

• Decoration: Matching illuminated headpieces in beige, pink and green on the first opening (f. 1v-2r). Sūrah headers in red ink. Rubrications in red. Readings in red. Verse endings marked by a red open circle or heart shape.
• Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I114.
• Layout: 12 to 15 lines per page. Some pages, particularly near the beginning, have two lines of text in larger thuluth followed by four lines of text in smaller naskh, three lines in larger thuluth, four lines in smaller naskh and a final two lines in larger thuluth. Most pages have text of a uniform size.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Item is undated, but probably copied in the 18th or 19th century, perhaps in Turkey.
• Script: Written in naskh and thuluth in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 234.
• 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 with flap blind-stamped with central mandorla with two pendants along the vertical axis and frame with repeating pattern; flap is also stamped.

Language note

Arabic.

Source acquisition

Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

OCLC

1080352251

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