[al-Qurʼān]
Contributors: Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1200
Language: ara
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Specimens; Arabic Manuscripts; Qurʼan
Work titles: Qurʼan. Selections
Description: Excerpt from the Qurʼān including the end of Āl-ʻImrān verse 85 through al-Nisāʼ verse 12 (3:85-4:12).
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Layout: 17 long lines.

Script: Written in early Abbasid new style; pointed, vocalized.

Decoration: Every tenth verse marked with a large rosette with a yellow center; yellow spiral shaped marginal medallions; sūrah heading in yellow; rubrications in red, including readings.

Origin: Item is undated; possibly copied in the 13th or 14th century.

Shelfmark: MS Or 330 - FOLIO.

Each leaf has been placed between sheets of loosely woven tissue through which the writing remains clearly visible.

Note describing the manuscript, called No. 2, laid in.

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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.

Bound in a plain brown modern cardboard binding with plain brown pastedowns; dark brown textile spine.

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