al-Qurʼān
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1817
Place of publication: [Turkey?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Qurʼan
Work titles: Qurʼan
Description: Complete late Ottoman copy of the Qurʼān. Folios 262-295 are copied on a lighter colored, more highly burnished paper.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from colophon (f. 303v).

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

Layout: 15 long lines; border-ruled.

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

Decoration: Gilt and polychrome (shades of blue, yellow, red) illuminated double-page opening (f. 1v-2r). Different types of floral marginal medallions mark text divisions and sajdah. Sūrah titles in white ink on a gold background with red tinged floral decorations at either end. Verse ends marked by gold roundels lined in black with orange centers outlined with six blue and orange dots. Textblock border-ruled in double gold, blue, red. Rubrications in red. Readings in red. Colophon is written on cloudbands above floral fill (f. 303v).

Origin: Copy is dated 1233 AH and copied by Muḥammad al-Wahbī (f. 303v).

Shelfmark: MS Or 230.

Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I111.

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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

Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic.

Bound in red leather with flap. Embossed and gilded paper onlays of central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis, and corner pieces; the area around the onlays is also gilded. Gold tooled and ruled frame. Coordinating onlays and gilding on flap; gold tooled design of x-shapes and rules on inside fore-edge hinge. Bright pink paper doublure.

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