al-Juzʼ al-thāmin
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1750
Place of publication: Egypt?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Qurʼan
Other titles: Small Qur'ān in thirty parts ; volume 8.
Work titles: Qurʼan. Selections
Description: Complete section containing the first word of 6:111 to the final word of 7:87. The donation inscription and the text appear to be in the same hand.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from binding; inscription (f. 1r).

One volume of a small Qur'ān set, of which RBML holds four volumes under separate shelfmarks; See also MSS Or. 139, 140, and 141.

Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Layout: 9 long lines.

Script: Naskh with elements of ruqʻah in black ink; fully vocalized.

Decoration: Sūrah headings in red, green, and purple; red roundels mark verse ends, readings in red.

Shelfmark: MS Or 137.

Origin: Possibly written in Egypt at the end of the eighteenth century. This copy was likely donated with others from this set in early 1800.

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic.

Formerly owned by Nafīsah bint al-Ḥājj Muḥammad al-Ghalyūn and donated to the Mosque of Zaynab bint al-Husayn (possibly the one in Cairo) during Ramaḍān 1214 (January-February 1800) (f. 1r).

Quarter bound in blue paper over pasteboard with flap; black leather spine and fore-edge hinge.

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