[al-Juzʼ al-khāmis ʻashar]
Contributors: Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1400
Place of publication: Syria or Turkey?]
Language: ara
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Qurʼan
Work titles: Qurʼan. Selections
Description: Complete section, containing the bismillāh and first word of 17 to the last word of 18. Folios 9 and 12 are a rewritten inserts in a different hand. A full page illumination seems to have been covered over or transferred by contact to f. 1r; small sections and a shadow are visible.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Arabic.

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

Decoration: Surah titles in gold outlined in black. Gold eight petal rosettes with pink center lined by pink and blue dots mark verse endings.

Origin: Item is undated, but perhaps copied in the 15th to the mid-16th century.

Shelfmark: MS Or 256.

One volume of a Qur'ān set, of which RBML holds three volumes under separate shelfmarks; See also MSS Or. 257 and 258.

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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

Layout: 5 lines per page.

Given as a waqf (charitable endowment) for al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá al-Bakrī (inscription dated 1161/1748, f. 1r).

Brown leather with flap; blind-tooled central roundel and wide frame, flap is blind tooled with coordinating design. Doublures are silhouette patterned paper.

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