Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic [Browse]

Scribe

I?fahani, Mu?ammad, 1966- [Browse]

Related name

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

Former owner

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 [Browse]

Summary note

Small, complete copy of the Qurʼān on gold sprinkled pages.

Notes

• Decoration: Double page illuminated opening in gold, blue, pink, orange, green with text on cloudbands; margin fill of yellow and orange flowers with gold leaves. Textblock of the rest of the pages is gold-sprinkled with gold rules between each line and around the outside. Page opening is framed in a gold rule. Gold roundels mark verse endings. Sūrah headings and text divisions written in gold ink. Readings and some marginal comments in red.
• Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
• Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I116.
• Layout: 14 ruled lines; border-ruled.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Copy completed on 4 Rajab 1091 by Muḥammad al-Isfahānī (f. 240r), possibly in Iran.
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 186.
• Title from colophon (f. 240r).

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

Bound in dark brown leather with gilt stamped central diamond-shaped medallion and floral border. Purple and black marbled paper doublure.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

Customs stamp dated 1312 (f. 1r, 240v).

Source acquisition

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

OCLC

1077194424

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