al-Qurʼān
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1680
Place of publication: [Iran?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts
Work titles: Qurʼan
Description: Small, complete copy of the Qurʼān on gold sprinkled pages.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title from colophon (f. 240r).

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

Layout: 14 ruled lines; border-ruled.

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

Decoration: Double page illuminated opening in gold, blue, pink, orange, green with text on cloudbands; margin fill of yellow and orange flowers with gold leaves. Textblock of the rest of the pages is gold-sprinkled with gold rules between each line and around the outside. Page opening is framed in a gold rule. Gold roundels mark verse endings. Sūrah headings and text divisions written in gold ink. Readings and some marginal comments in red.

Shelfmark: MS Or 186.

Origin: Copy completed on 4 Rajab 1091 by Muḥammad al-Isfahānī (f. 240r), possibly in Iran.

Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I116.

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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.

Customs stamp dated 1312 (f. 1r, 240v).

Bound in dark brown leather with gilt stamped central diamond-shaped medallion and floral border. Purple and black marbled paper doublure.

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