[al-Qurʼān]
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1537
Language: ara
Number of pages: 410
Subjects: Manuscripts; Arabic Manuscripts; Qurʼan
Work titles: Qurʼan
Description: Complete copy of the Qurʼān, many leaves repaired along edges.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: Written in 11 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink, pointed, vocalized; titles in thuluth in gold, pointed, vocalized.

Decoration: Blue, gold, and red illuminated dual-page first opening (f. 1v-2r); gold roundels with pink and blue dots mark verse endings; sūrah headings in gold; textblock border-ruled in gold and blue.

Origin: Copy completed by Burhān ibn Waḥīd, known as Zayn al-Dīn al-Khawāfī at the beginning of Jumādá al-Thānī in 944 A.H. (1537 CE) (f. 410r).

Shelfmark: MS Or 249.

Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I129.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2021. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

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Arabic.

Brown leather with blind-stamped central mandorla, includes partial envelope flap with blind stamped inscription; doublures stencilled in red; pastedowns across the envelope flap indicate binding repair in or after 1311 A.H. (1893-94 CE).

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