Details

Subject(s)

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

Related name

• Arabic Manuscripts Collection (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary) [Browse]
• Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) [Browse]

Summary note

Complete copy of the Qurʼān, likely extensively repaired at a later date. Many pages in the second half of the volume are written on slightly orange-tinted paper and inset into lighter frames. Additional leaves at the end of the volume include prayers (f. 405-412).

Notes

• Decoration: Faint traces of a frontispiece with central shamsah (f. 2r); dual-page illuminated first opening in blue and gold containing sūrat al-Fātiḥah (f. 2v-3r). Polychrome illuminated headpiece (f. 3v) at the top of the beginning of sūrat al-Baqarah with the text of the full opening on cloudbands with gold, foliate marginal fill (f. 3v-4r). Surah headings in gold; gold roundels mark verse endings,
• Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. Hindu-Arabic numeral folio numbers added in ink, upper center recto with sūrah header and juzʼ number on upper right verso. References in the record are to the modern foliation.
• Layout: Written in 12 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left; border-ruled.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Item is undated; perhaps produced in the 17th or 18th century.
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
• Shelfmark: UTS MS Arab. 2.
• 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

Red leather with envelope flap (Type II); gilded onlay border and flap decoration.

Language note

Arabic with some notes in Persian.

Provenance

Square seal (f. 403v).

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

OCLC

1196044951

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