[al-Qurʼān]
Contributors: Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1700
Language: ara
Number of pages: 546
Subjects: Manuscripts; Arabic Manuscripts; Qurʼan
Work titles: Qurʼan
Description: Small, complete copy of the Qurʼān in a color-contrast inset paper technique.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: 11 lines per page; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Script: Written chiefly in naskh in black ink with sūrah titles in thuluth; pointed and vocalized.

Decoration: Inset leaves so textblock is a lighter color; dual page illuminated first opening with the first sūrah written on a scalloped medallion lined in black with white flowers between each line, surrounding the medallion are flowers and vines in pink, purple, red, and green with an outside marginal illumination of a scalloped design chiefly in gold and blue with red, blue and purple flowers; sūrah headings are in a blue-lined rectangle, written in white ink lined in black on a gold background with polychrome vine and leaf designs; text divisions are marked by marginal medallions in gold and blue; verse endings marked by gold roundels; textblock border-ruled in gold and blue and page-opening frame-ruled in double black; readings in red.

Origin: Item is undated; likely copied in the 18th century or 19th century.

Shelfmark: MS Or 214.

Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I142.

Customs stamp solar dated 1312/1934 (f. 1r, 537v).

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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

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic.

Lacquered covers; outside covers have gold flowers and vines on a black field with a frame of gold vines; inside covers are black with two gold painted frames around a central shape of a rectangle with quarter circles taken out of each corner and a half circle taken out of each long side.

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