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

One part of a 30-part Qur'ān of which RBML holds fifteen volumes under separate shelfmarks (MSS Or. 94, 98-105, 107-110, 112-114). This is the only volume to contain a colophon (f. 37r); completed on the first day of A.H. 1086 (1675); scribe's name is not included. This volume contains from verse 32 of al-Zumar to verse 46 of Fuṣṣilat, 39:32-41:46.

Notes

• Decoration: Sūrah titles in red; red double line border rules; red roundels mark verse ends.
• Layout: 7 long lines.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Copy finished 1 Muḥarram A.H. 1086.
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed; fully vocalized.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 94.
• 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 with blind tooling and central mandorla. Fore-edge and envelope flap. Separate pastedowns of marbled paper with stubs extending across the joints and marbled paper flap linings. Endbands with chevron-pattern secondary sewing.

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 24.

OCLC

1055792812

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