Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Manuscripts [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

Small, complete copy of the Qurʼān in a color-contrast inset paper technique.

Notes

• Customs stamp solar dated 1312/1934 (f. 1r, 537v).
• Decoration: Inset leaves so textblock is a lighter color; dual page illuminated first opening with the first sūrah written on a scalloped medallion lined in black with white flowers between each line, surrounding the medallion are flowers and vines in pink, purple, red, and green with an outside marginal illumination of a scalloped design chiefly in gold and blue with red, blue and purple flowers; sūrah headings are in a blue-lined rectangle, written in white ink lined in black on a gold background with polychrome vine and leaf designs; text divisions are marked by marginal medallions in gold and blue; verse endings marked by gold roundels; textblock border-ruled in gold and blue and page-opening frame-ruled in double black; readings in red.
• Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I142.
• Layout: 11 lines per page; catchwords every verso, lower left.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Item is undated; likely copied in the 18th century or 19th century.
• Script: Written chiefly in naskh in black ink with sūrah titles in thuluth; pointed and vocalized.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 214.
• 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

Lacquered covers; outside covers have gold flowers and vines on a black field with a frame of gold vines; inside covers are black with two gold painted frames around a central shape of a rectangle with quarter circles taken out of each corner and a half circle taken out of each long side.

Language note

Arabic.

Source acquisition

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

OCLC

1112158868

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