al-Qurʼān
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1728
Place of publication: [Iran?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Persian Manuscripts; Qurʼan
Other titles: Qurʼan. Persian.
Work titles: Qurʼan
Description: Complete copy of the Qurʼān with interlinear Persian translation.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from colophon (f. 392r).

Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left; sūrah title in red every recto, upper left.

Layout: 22 gold-ruled lines alternating full and half height with Arabic in the full height and Persian in the half-height. Central line of each page in gold display script.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized with translation in nastaʻlīq in red ink; pointed. Central line of each page in muḥaqqaq in gold ink; pointed, vocalized.

Decoration: Double-page polychrome (chiefly blue, pink, red) and gold illuminated opening (f. 1v-2r). Illuminated sūrah headings in red ink on gold cartouche framed in many different polychrome patterns; marginal text division markers in gold pointed medallion shape with a blue finial surrounded by bright, multi-colored flames. Verse endings marked by four petal rosette with a green center, red and blue highlights. Textblock border-ruled in black, gold, blue; page-opening framed in a thin, gold rule. Lines of text are ruled in gold with the first letters of each line, and the central line of the page written in gold. Readings in red.

Shelfmark: MS Or 222.

Origin: Copy completed in Ramaḍān 1140 AH (1728 CE) by Muḥammad Muḥsin al-Iṣfahānī (f. 392r), probably in Iran.

Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I147.

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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 with Persian translation and marginal notes.

Customs stamp solar dated 1310/1932 (f. 1r, 392v). Owner's stamp in triplicate, possibly dated 1318/1900-01 (f. 392r).

Lacquered cover of painted floral arrangement on copper-orange ground with black and dark red floral frames; doublures of gold scrolls and flowers on red ground with narrow dark red frame of floral motifs.

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