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

Nearly complete copy of the Qurʼān, missing only al-Fātiḥah (1). Pagination (1-445 only) and short titles (all the way through) added in a later hand.

Notes

• Decoration: Rubrications in red: readings, sūrah headings (some very faded), marginal text division markers.
• Layout: 17 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Colophon has been mostly scrubbed, though the nisbah Iṣfahānī is visible. Probably copied in the 17th or 18th century.
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 206.
• 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

Copy retains only the back board and spine. The board is has a partial lacquer cover with fragmentary inscription inscription around a red frame. Green doublure with double gold frame.

Language note

Arabic.

Source acquisition

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

OCLC

1081298880

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