al-Qurʼān
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1779
Language: ara
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Manuscripts; Arabic Manuscripts; Qurʼan
Work titles: Qurʼan
Description: Complete copy of the Qurʼān with marginal verse markers for each juzʼ and ḥizb.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from colophon (f. 304r).

Layout: 15 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.

Decoration: Polychrome and gold dual-page illuminated first opening (f. 1v-2r); gold finispiece with gold painted flowers (f. 304r); polychrome and gold floral marginal medallions with blue finials mark text divisions; surah headings in white on a gold rectangular field with floral end-fill; gold roundels mark verse endings; textblock border-ruled in gold, blue, red; readings in red.

Origin: Copy completed in 1193 AH by Ismaʻīl ibn Ṣāliḥ (f. 304r).

Shelfmark: MS Or 422.

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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

Arabic.

Bound in reddish brown leather over pasteboard with flap; gilded inlay central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; brown leather frame, spine, and flap hinge; gilt-stamped flap; green marbled paper pastedowns.

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