Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 96

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6501

Shelfmark:

MS Or 96

Title:

Qurʼān selections and prayers

Place:

India?

India TGN

Date:

between 1700 and 1850?

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 online resource (1 + 4 leaves +141 foliated leaves + 1) : Laid paper, illuminations

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Modern western foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords on versos, lower left.
Layout: 4 long lines.
Script: Bihari in black ink; pointed and vocalized; often cramped on the left margin or a word is split and continues on the following line.
Decoration: Illumination includes a sequence of border frames, mostly unwritten, and incomplete, in red, black, blue, and green (f. 1v-4r), two in-text foliate banners in pale yellow (f. 20r, f. 118r), and a full-page finispiece (f. 139r), lobed roudels in red, yellow, and green often mark verse ends, but sometimes merely decorate the verses (see for example, f. 39r), or appear mid-verse (f...
Name of previous owner (ṣāḥibah) has been pasted over (f. 1r).
Shelfmark: MS Or 96.
Origin: Likely written in India in the 18th or 19th century.

Keyword:

full covers

blind-tooled (decoration)

secondary sewing (endband techniques)

Islamic bindings

compound endbands

onlays (decorative components)

endleaves

codices (bound manuscripts)

compilation manuscripts

illuminations (paintings)

manuscripts (documents)

prayers (literary works)

linings (components)

envelope flaps (features)

Manuscripts, Arabic

New York (State)--New York

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13604628

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_13604628_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library