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 copy of the Qur'ān in an inset, color-contrast paper technique.

Notes

• Decoration: Polychrome [red, blue, green] and gold illuminated frontispiece (f. 3v-4r) with text in cloudbands; polychrome [gold, red, blue] marginal verse markers; textblock border ruled [gold, black]; page openings framed in black rules; readings in red and chapter titles in gold; gold roundels with red and blue dots mark verse endings.
• Foliation: Contains catchwords on the outer frame and folio numbers on the lower left corner of each inset verso. Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto. References in the record are to modern foliation.
• Former shelfmark: X893.7K84 I112.
• Layout: 18 long lines.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Copy completed at the end of the second part of the month of Dhū al-Qaʻdah, approximately 20 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1189 A.H. (fī awākhir al-ʻushr al-thānī min shahr Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1189 AH).
• Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 91.
• Title from colophon (f. 199r).

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. Painted lacquer over pasteboards with leather spine. Endbands with chevron-pattern secondary sewing.

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

Customs stamp dated A.H. 1312 (1895) (f. 3r).

Source acquisition

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

OCLC

1055792625

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