Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan [Browse]
• 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 section, containing the first word of 51:31 to the final word of 57:29. This volume is one of a 30-part Qurʼān which, like a similar but possibly independent volume (MS Or. 111), has been rebound in a manner akin to fifteen volumes in the collection from another set (see MS Or. 94 for the primary entry).

Notes

• Decoration: Sūrah headings in red; border rules in red and blue; red roundels mark verse ends.
• Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; no catchwords.
• Layout: 9 long lines; border-ruled.
• Manuscript codex.
• Script: Naskh in black ink, fully vocalized.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 118.
• Title from binding; inscription (f. 1v).

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

Islamic binding. Full brown leather binding with blind tooling and central blind-stamped mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis. Fore-edge and stamped envelope flap.

Language note

Arabic.

Source acquisition

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

OCLC

1076493782

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