al-Juzʼ al-ʻishrūn
Contributors: Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1750
Language: ara
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Qurʼan
Work titles: Qurʼan. Selections
Description: Complete section, containing the first word of 27:56 to the final word of 29:45.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from caption title.

Layout: 8 lines per page.

Script: Written in neat naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized. Sūrah titles in thuluth.

Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold and blue with green rules and title in white ink (f. 2v). Textblock is border-ruled. Sūrah titles and marginal text division notations in gold. Gold roundels mark verse endings. Readings in red.

Origin: Item is undated, likely copied in the mid-18th to mid-19th century.

Shelfmark: MS Or 240.

One volume of a Qurʼān in 30 parts, of which RBML holds five volumes under separate shelfmarks; see also MS Or. 239, 241, 242, and 243.

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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

Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic.

Brown-black leather with flap; blind-stamped central mandorla with traces of a gold ruled border and frame.

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