Details

Subject(s)

• 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

Complete copy of the Qurʼān.

Notes

• Decoration: Textblock is border-ruled in gold, black, red. First opening has dual-page illumination in gold, pink, blue with text in round medallion. Marginal medallions in vivid colors appear throughout and mark text divisions. Gold roundels with yellow and red dots mark verse endings. Sūrah headings in white ink on gold background. Readings in red.
• Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
• Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I138.
• Layout: 15 long lines; border-ruled.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Item is not dated, but likely copied in the 18th or first half of the 19th century.
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 179.

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 brown leather with gold tooled central diaper grid pattern with frame in rope-work design. Pink paper doublure.

Language note

Arabic.

Source acquisition

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

OCLC

1077188270

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