[al-Qurʼān]
Contributors: Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1700
Place of publication: [Turkey?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Qurʼan
Work titles: Qurʼan
Description: Complete copy of the Qurʼān, written in at least three hands with varying page layout; also includes six replacement pages on rougher paper (f. 55-57, 59-61).
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: 12 to 15 lines per page. Some pages, particularly near the beginning, have two lines of text in larger thuluth followed by four lines of text in smaller naskh, three lines in larger thuluth, four lines in smaller naskh and a final two lines in larger thuluth. Most pages have text of a uniform size.

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

Decoration: Matching illuminated headpieces in beige, pink and green on the first opening (f. 1v-2r). Sūrah headers in red ink. Rubrications in red. Readings in red. Verse endings marked by a red open circle or heart shape.

Shelfmark: MS Or 234.

Origin: Item is undated, but probably copied in the 18th or 19th century, perhaps in Turkey.

Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I114.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2019. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002. Digital version conforms to: http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic.

Red leather with flap blind-stamped with central mandorla with two pendants along the vertical axis and frame with repeating pattern; flap is also stamped.

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