[al-Qurʼān]
Contributors: Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1500
Language: ara
Number of pages: 41
Subjects: Arabic Manuscripts; Qurʼan
Work titles: Qurʼan. Selections
Description: Portion of the Qurʼān containing the 23rd word of 2:283 to the 19th word of 6:81.
Notes: Manuscript codex fragment.

Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto; leaf 5 is numbered as both 5 and 6; leaves 35 and 36 are both numbered 35.

Layout: 8 long lines with interlinear gloss.

Script: Written in thuluth in black ink; pointed and vocalized.

Decoration: Textblock border ruled in gold, red, blue; marginal text partition markers in blue and gold; readings in red; word "Allāh" in gold outlined in red; chapter titles in gold outlined in black; gold roundels with black design and green and red dots mark verse endings.

Shelfmark: MS Or 83 - FOLIO/FLAT.

Origin: An insert says these leaves are 14th century.

A leaf from another Qur'ān previously inserted in this manuscript has been removed and cataloged separately as MS Or 83a.

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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 and Persian.

Frame cover of dark leather with red leather sides, raised false bands, and gold tooling used as a wrapper for loose text leaves. There is no clear evidence that these leaves were formerly bound into the cover.

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