Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 94

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DS ID:

DS6499

Shelfmark:

MS Or 94

Title:

al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ wa-al-ʻishrūn / الجزء الرابع والعشرون

Qurʼan

Place:

Turkey or Syria?

Turkey TGN

Syria TGN

Date:

1675.

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

non-European laid paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 38 foliated leaves : non-European laid paper ; 215 x 155 (160 x 95) mm, bound to 205 x 155 x 15 mm

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Decoration: Sūrah titles in red; red double line border rules; red roundels mark verse ends.
Layout: 7 long lines.
Manuscript codex.
Origin: Copy finished 1 Muḥarram A.H. 1086.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed; fully vocalized.
Shelfmark: MS Or 94.
Title from inscription (f. 1r).

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

separate pastedowns

trough-marbled paper

envelope flaps (features)

full covers

manuscripts (documents)

Early works

Islamic bindings

compound endbands

linings (components)

Qur'ans

secondary sewing (endband techniques)

blind-tooled (decoration)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Qurʼan

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13554143

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_13604622_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library