Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 106

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6522

Shelfmark:

MS Or 106

Title:

al-Niṣf al-thānī min juzʼ aḥad ʻashar

Place:

Iran?

Iran TGN

Date:

1750?-1867

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic with a few statements in Persian

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 online resource (12 + 1 leaves) : non-European laid paper, illuminations

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from headpiece (f. 2v).
Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
Layout: 12 long lines; border-ruled.
Script: Naskh in black ink; fully vocalized.
Decoration: Polychrome (red, blue, pink, orange, black, green, yellow, white) and gold illuminated headpiece (f. 2v). Textblock border-rules in red, gold, black, blue; page opening frame-ruled in black. Rubrications in red with gold and blue highlights. Gold roundels with red and blue dots mark verse endings. Surah titles in red on gold background with polychrome edge decorations. Polychrome...
Shelfmark: MS Or 106.
Origin: No date of copy, though the donation note is dated Rajab 1284 (October-November 1867) (f. 2r). Possibly copied in Iran.
Customs stamps dated 1312 (1894-95) (f. 1r, 10v).

Keyword:

blind-tooled (decoration)

pastedowns (features)

Qur'ans

manuscripts (documents)

trough-marbled paper

codices (bound manuscripts)

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian

Manuscripts, Arabic

Qurʼan

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13892614

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_13892614_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library