Details

Subject(s)

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

Scribe

• Wahbī, Muḥammad [Browse]
• وهبي، محمد، [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 late Ottoman copy of the Qurʼān. Folios 262-295 are copied on a lighter colored, more highly burnished paper.

Notes

• Decoration: Gilt and polychrome (shades of blue, yellow, red) illuminated double-page opening (f. 1v-2r). Different types of floral marginal medallions mark text divisions and sajdah. Sūrah titles in white ink on a gold background with red tinged floral decorations at either end. Verse ends marked by gold roundels lined in black with orange centers outlined with six blue and orange dots. Textblock border-ruled in double gold, blue, red. Rubrications in red. Readings in red. Colophon is written on cloudbands above floral fill (f. 303v).
• Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
• Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I111.
• Layout: 15 long lines; border-ruled.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Copy is dated 1233 AH and copied by Muḥammad al-Wahbī (f. 303v).
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 230.
• Title from colophon (f. 303v).

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

Bound in red leather with flap. Embossed and gilded paper onlays of central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis, and corner pieces; the area around the onlays is also gilded. Gold tooled and ruled frame. Coordinating onlays and gilding on flap; gold tooled design of x-shapes and rules on inside fore-edge hinge. Bright pink paper doublure.

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

1081298956

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