القرآن.

al-Qurʼān.

Uniform title
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
  • Arabic
  • Persian
Published/​Created
[Iran?], 1728.
Description
1 online resource (iv, 392, iii leaves) : non-European laid paper, illuminations

Details

Subject(s)
Scribe
Former owner
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Summary note
Complete copy of the Qurʼān with interlinear Persian translation.
Notes
  • Decoration: Double-page polychrome (chiefly blue, pink, red) and gold illuminated opening (f. 1v-2r). Illuminated sūrah headings in red ink on gold cartouche framed in many different polychrome patterns; marginal text division markers in gold pointed medallion shape with a blue finial surrounded by bright, multi-colored flames. Verse endings marked by four petal rosette with a green center, red and blue highlights. Textblock border-ruled in black, gold, blue; page-opening framed in a thin, gold rule. Lines of text are ruled in gold with the first letters of each line, and the central line of the page written in gold. Readings in red.
  • Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left; sūrah title in red every recto, upper left.
  • Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I147.
  • Layout: 22 gold-ruled lines alternating full and half height with Arabic in the full height and Persian in the half-height. Central line of each page in gold display script.
  • Manuscript codex.
  • Origin: Copy completed in Ramaḍān 1140 AH (1728 CE) by Muḥammad Muḥsin al-Iṣfahānī (f. 392r), probably in Iran.
  • Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized with translation in nastaʻlīq in red ink; pointed. Central line of each page in muḥaqqaq in gold ink; pointed, vocalized.
  • Shelfmark: MS Or 222.
  • Title from colophon (f. 392r).
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
Lacquered cover of painted floral arrangement on copper-orange ground with black and dark red floral frames; doublures of gold scrolls and flowers on red ground with narrow dark red frame of floral motifs.
Language note
Arabic with Persian translation and marginal notes.
Provenance
Customs stamp solar dated 1310/1932 (f. 1r, 392v). Owner's stamp in triplicate, possibly dated 1318/1900-01 (f. 392r).
Source acquisition
Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
Other format(s)
Also available as a digital facsimile.
Other title(s)
Qurʼan. Persian.
OCLC
1080351495
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