Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Manuscripts [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic [Browse]

Scribe

• Tabrīzī, ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn, active 1602 [Browse]
• تبريزى، علاء الدين، active 1602، [Browse]

Former owner

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

Related name

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

Summary note

Complete copy of the Qurʼān; pages were remounted into later paper frames.

Notes

• Decoration: Dual-page illuminated first opening in gold with blue, polychrome vines and leaves (f. 1r-2v); sūrah headings in white ink on gold background set into a blue rectangle with polychrome floral fill on either end; finispiece of gold leaves and vines around colophon (f. 299r); readings in red.
• Layout: Written in 14 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left; border-ruled.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Copy completed in 1011 A.H. (1602 or 1603 CE) by ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn al-Tabrīzī (f. 299r).
• Persian customs stamps solar dated 1312 (1933 CE) (f. 1r, 299v).
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized; last two pages written in taʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 317 - FOLIO.
• Title from prayer at end (f. 299r).

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 lacquered boards, probably 19th century. Outside covers with black central mandorla with two pendants on vertical axis with gold floral designs set in dark red field also with gold floral fill, bordered by a set of five frames in gold and red. Inside covers feature a red field with central floral motif bordered by a floral line and framed in black with a repeating floral motif.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith (library bookplate first flyleaf verso at front of book; signature in pencil second flyleaf recto at front of book).

Source acquisition

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

OCLC

1199095290

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