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 15:1 to the last word of 16:128.

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'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; occasional catchwords on verso, lower left.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 98.
• Title from binding; inscription (f. 2r).

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 (goatskin) binding with tooling and central 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)

Qurʼān in thirty parts ; volume 14.

OCLC

1056194707

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