Details

Subject(s)

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

Scribe

• Ḥāfiẓ Ibrāhīm ibn Muṣṭafá, active 1812 [Browse]
• حافظ ابراهيم بن مصطفى، active 1812 [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.

Notes

• Decoration: Polychrome and gold illuminated double-page opening (pages unnumbered verso-[1]r); polychrome and gold floral marginal medallions; gold roundels with orange and blue dots mark verse endings; textblock border-ruled in red and gold; sūrah headings in white on gold background; readings and verse counts in red.
• Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I113.
• Layout: 15 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left; border-ruled.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Copy completed in 1227 AH. (1812 or 1813 CE) by al-Sayyid Ḥāfiẓ Ibrāhīm ibn al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá (pages [598]).
• Pagination: Page numbers in Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil, upper outer corners (iii, 2-590, ix).
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 231.
• 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 fore-edge flap (Type II); gilt-stamped central mandorla and cornerpiece onlays; gold-tooled frame and pendants on the vertical axis; spine and edges repaired.

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

1151771106

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