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 18:75 to the final word of 20:135.

Notes

• Decoration: Sūrah headings in red; double line red border rules; red roundels mark verse ends.
• Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; occasional catchword on verso, lower left.
• Layout: 7 long lines, border ruled.
• Manuscript codex.
• One volume of a 30-part Qurʼān of which RBMBL holds fifteen volumes under separate shelfmarks (see MS Or. 94 for the primary entry).
• Origin: [1085?] A.H.; MS Or. 94 from this set lists that date.
• Script: Naskh in black ink, fully vocalized.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 108.
• Title from binding; inscription (f. 1r).

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. Fore-edge and envelope flap. Marbled paper pastedowns.

Language note

Arabic.

Source acquisition

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

Other title(s)

Qur'ān in thirty parts ; volume 16.

OCLC

1076493739

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