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 bismillāh and first word of 23:1 to the final word of 25:20.

Notes

• Decoration: Sūrah titles in red; double line red border rules; red roundels mark verse ends.
• Layout: 7 long lines.
• Manuscript codex.
• One volume of a 30-part Qur'ān 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; occasional catchwords on verso, lower left.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 102.
• Title from binding and 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 with central blind stamped mandorla and blind tooled lines. Manuscript paper label on right board with decorative shaped edges. Fore-edge and envelope flap with central stamp and blind tooled lines. Marbled paper separate pastedowns and flap linings.

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 18.

OCLC

1056194753

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