Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 91

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6498

Shelfmark:

MS Or 91

Title:

al-Qurʼān

Place:

Iran?

Iran TGN

Date:

1776.

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 online resource (199 leaves :) paper, illuminations

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from colophon (f. 199r).
Customs stamp dated A.H. 1312 (1895) (f. 3r).
Layout: 18 long lines.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized.
Decoration: Polychrome [red, blue, green] and gold illuminated frontispiece (f. 3v-4r) with text in cloudbands; polychrome [gold, red, blue] marginal verse markers; textblock border ruled [gold, black]; page openings framed in black rules; readings in red and chapter titles in gold; gold roundels with red and blue dots mark verse endings.
Foliation: Contains catchwords on the outer frame and folio numbers on the lower left corner of each inset verso. Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto. References in the record are to modern foliation.
Shelfmark: MS Or 91.
Former shelfmark: X893.7K84 I112.
Origin: Copy completed at the end of the second part of the month of Dhū al-Qaʻdah, approximately 20 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1189 A.H. (fī awākhir al-ʻushr al-thānī min shahr Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1189 AH).

Keyword:

paste-laminate board (material)

secondary sewing (endband techniques)

Islamic bindings

compound endbands

codices (bound manuscripts)

Qur'ans

illuminations (paintings)

Lacquered bindings

manuscripts (documents)

Early works

Stamps

Manuscripts, Arabic

New York (State)--New York

Qurʼan

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13604207

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_13604207_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library