Details

Subject(s)

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

Former owner

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

Related name

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

Summary note

Devotional book containing numerous selections from the Qurʼān as well as prayers and talismans.

Notes

• Bound in red leather over pasteboard with flap; gilt stamped diaper grid pattern and gold frame; flap gilt stamped with vines; pink paper pastedowns; matching red leather case with tie, stamped in the same grid pattern as the codex on the front and a smaller, simplified diaper grid pattern on the back.
• Decoration: Illuminated headpieces in gold, yellow, blue, red and green with the text on cloudbands and a wide gold border rule (f. 1v, 69v); facing page also written on cloudbands with a wide gold border rule (f. 1r, 70r); gold roundels punctuate text; textblock border-ruled in gold; some in-text gold accents (for example f. 5v); gold text dividers; two simple gold finispieces (f. 66v-67r); some rubrications in faded red.
• Layout: Chiefly 7 long lines, with some tables and tabular layouts.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Item is undated; probably produced in the 18th century.
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 421.

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.

Language note

Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

Other title(s)

• Qurʼan. Selections
• قرآن. Selections.

OCLC

1112158872

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