Details

Subject(s)

• Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic [Browse]
• Prayer—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Former owner

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 [Browse]

Related name

• Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) [Browse]

Summary note

Contains a selection of 55 chapters from the Qur'ān with other prayers.

Notes

• Decoration: Dual-page illuminated first opening with polychrome and gold headpiece, gold floral margin fill and text on cloudbands (f. 1v-[2]r). All other pages are ruled in between each line in gold and black and border-ruled in gold, black, red. Gold roundels mark verse endings. Rubrications in red, including headers and readings.
• Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
• Layout: 10 ruled lines; border-ruled.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Item is not dated, but likely copied in Iran in the 18th century or first half of the 19th century.
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; some elements in nastaʻliq; pointed, partially vocalized.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 203.

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

Lacquer cover with red central floral medallion with painted flower in-fill and two matching pendants along the vertical axis on an orange background with an inscribed frame in off white on a red background. Bright orange paper doublure.

Language note

Arabic and Persian.

Provenance

Customs stamp dated 1312/1934 (f. 1r, 171v).

Source acquisition

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

Other title(s)

• Qurʼan. Selections
• قرآن. Selections.

OCLC

1077190724

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