Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 110

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6526

Shelfmark:

MS Or 110

Title:

al-Juzʼ al-khāmis ʻashar min al-rabʻah al-sharīfah

Place:

Turkey or Syria?

Turkey TGN

Date:

1674-76?

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 38 leaves : laid paper ; 205 x 150 (140 x 90) mm, bound to 210 x 160 x 15 mm.

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
One volume of a 30-part Qur'an of which RBML holds fifteen volumes under separate shelfmarks (see MS Or. 94 for the primary entry).
Title from binding; inscription (f. 2r).
Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; occasional catchword on verso, lower left.
Layout: 7 long lines, border-ruled.
Script: Naskh in black ink, fully vocalized.
Decoration: Sūrah headings in red; double line red border rules; red roundels mark verse ends.
Origin: [1085?] A.H.; MS Or. 94 from this set lists that date.
Shelfmark: MS Or 110.

Keyword:

full covers

blind-tooled (decoration)

Islamic bindings

codices (bound manuscripts)

Qur'ans

manuscripts (documents)

Early works

envelope flaps (features)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Qurʼan

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13892631

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_13892631_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library