القرآن.

al-Qurʼān.

Uniform title
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[Turkey?], 1847-48.
Description
1 online resource (i, 308, i leaves) : Non-European laid paper, illuminations

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Former owner
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Summary note
Complete copy of the Qurʼān.
Notes
  • Decoration: Gold, blue, red, and green illuminated double-page first opening (f. 1v-2r) and final opening (f. unnumbered verso-308r); marginal medallions mark text divisions; gold roundels with orange and blue dots mark verse endings; textblock border-ruled in red, black, gold; sūrah headings in white ink on gold background; readings in red.
  • Includes catchwords. Between following 99-100 is a small printed leaf. Former MS X893.7K84 I133.
  • Layout: Written in 15 long lines.
  • Manuscript codex.
  • Origin: Copy completed in 1264 AH (1847-1848 CE) by al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Tawfīq (f. 308r).
  • Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
  • Shelfmark: MS Or 200.
  • Title from colophon (f. 306v).
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
Red-brown leather with flap (now missing) (Type II); gold-painted central field or repeating geometric pattern and gold frame; light blue embossed paper doublure.
Language note
Arabic.
Provenance
Inscription by Rizeli Şükri bin Hājjī Muṣṭafā dated Ramaḍān 1306 AH (May 1889 CE) (f. 307v).
Source acquisition
Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
Other format(s)
Also available as a digital facsimile.
OCLC
1152174818
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