al-Qurʼān
Contributors: Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1776
Place of publication: [Iran?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Qurʼan
Description: Complete copy of the Qur'ān in an inset, color-contrast paper technique.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from colophon (f. 199r).

Layout: 18 long lines.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized.

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.

Shelfmark: MS Or 91.

Former shelfmark: X893.7K84 I112.

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).

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

Arabic.

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

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

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