[Qurʼān selections and prayers]
Contributors: Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1700
Place of publication: India?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 141
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts
Work titles: Qurʼan. Selections
Description: Excerpts from the Qurʼān and short prayers; likely a practice copy as script spacing, word divisions, and verse ending decorations are not regular.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Foliation: Modern western foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords on versos, lower left.

Layout: 4 long lines.

Script: Bihari in black ink; pointed and vocalized; often cramped on the left margin or a word is split and continues on the following line.

Decoration: Illumination includes a sequence of border frames, mostly unwritten, and incomplete, in red, black, blue, and green (f. 1v-4r), two in-text foliate banners in pale yellow (f. 20r, f. 118r), and a full-page finispiece (f. 139r), lobed roudels in red, yellow, and green often mark verse ends, but sometimes merely decorate the verses (see for example, f. 39r), or appear mid-verse (f. 67r, 69r, for example). Infill of red or yellow dots in some bismallāh headers (f. 79r, 81r, 90r, 128v).

Shelfmark: MS Or 96.

Origin: Likely written in India in the 18th or 19th century.

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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.

Arabic.

Name of previous owner (ṣāḥibah) has been pasted over (f. 1r).

Islamic binding. Full red leather binding with tooling and paper onlays. Fore-edge and envelope flap. Yellow paper endleaves, green paper envelope flap lining. Endbands with chevron-pattern secondary sewing.

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Table of contents: title: 1. f. iiv-1v: Decorative frames; title: 2. f. 2r-77v: al-Kahf (18); title: 3. f. 78r-78v: Duʻāʼ (short prayer); title: 4. f. 79r-80v: al-Fātiḥ̣ah; title: 5. f. 81r-83v: Āyat al-Kursī (2:255) (The Throne Verse); title: 6. f. 83v-86v: Selections from Āl-ʻImrān (3:18-half of 19; 26-27); title: 7. f. 87r-89v: Duʻāʼ (short prayer); title: 8. f. 90r-123v: Yā Sīn (36); title: 9. f. 123r-124r: Selection from al-Ṣāffāt (37:180-182); title: 10. f. 124r-124v: Selection from al-Zumar (39:53); title: 11. f. 124v-125r: Selection from al-Jāthiyah (45:36-37); title: 12. f. 125v-127r: al-Ikhlāṣ (112), al-Falaq (113), al-Nās (114); title: 13. f. 128v-137r: al-Nabāʼ (78); title: 14. f. 138r-139v: Prayer; title: 15. f. 139v-141r: Prayer; title: 16. f. 141v: Unstudied letterform-writing practice.