[al-Qurʼān]
Contributors: Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1800
Place of publication: Iran?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Manuscripts; Arabic Manuscripts; Qurʼan
Work titles: Qurʼan
Description: Complete copy of the Qurʼān, written onto gold sprinkled paper with five larger lines per page between four sets of seven smaller lines.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: 33 lines per page.

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

Decoration: Dual page illuminated first opening in blue, gold, orange (f. 1r-2v); gold foliate marginal fill on every page; textblock border-ruled in orange, blue, gold; pages gold-sprinkled; larger lines alternating red on a white field and black on a gold field; marginal section divisions and some sūrah titles in white ink on a gold field. The final page is gold-sprinkled, ruled and decorated, but unwritten (f. 62v).

Origin: The item is undated, perhaps copied in the 19th century.

Shelfmark: MS Or 271 - FOLIO.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2020. 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

Arabic.

Red leather over pasteboard; blind tooled interior and exterior frame with diagonal lines connecting the corners between them; marbled paper pastedowns.

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