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

Incomplete copy of the Qurʼān, from al-Kawthar (108) to the end (114) is missing. The first two folios are fragmentary with clean marginal repairs; much of the marginal decoration is lost.

Notes

• Decoration: Fragmentary polychrome (green, blue, red, black, pink) and gold illuminated dual-page opening (f. 1v-2r). Fragmentary gold vegetal marginal fill (f. 2v-3r); four complete floral marginal fill (f. 58v-59r, 78v-79r, 111v-112r, 275v-276). Text is written entirely on cloudbands with gold fill between the lines. Textblock is border ruled in gold and black. Page openings are ruled with a thin, gold frame. Sū̄rah titles appear in white ink on a gold background cartouche enclosed in a rectangle with light blue fill around the ends. Gold roundels mark verse endings. Gold circular and floral motif marginal medallions appear throughout to mark rukūʻ and text divisions. Readings marked in red.
• Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
• Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I12.
• Layout: 13 long lines.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Item is undated, though probably copied in the 17th or 18th century, perhaps in India.
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 190.
• 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

Item has no covers, though the quires are still bound together with orange thread.

Language note

Arabic.

Source acquisition

Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

OCLC

1080321084

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