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

Section, incomplete at end, containing the bismillāh and first word of 1:1 to the final word of 2:134.

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 lines per page, border-ruled.
• Manuscript codex.
• One volume of a 30-part Qur'an of which RBML 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 107.
• Title from 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.

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 1.

OCLC

1076493706

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