Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 140

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6541

Shelfmark:

MS Or 140

Title:

al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ ʻashar

Place:

Egypt?

Egypt TGN

Date:

between 1750 and 1799?].

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 29 leaves : laid paper ; 142 x 105 (95 x 65) mm, bound to 140 x 111 x 13 mm.

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Includes a birth note on the inside cover for Khalīl ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir on 27 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1172 (21 August 1759).
Title from binding.
One volume of a small Qur'ān set, of which RBML holds four volumes under separate shelfmarks; See also MSS Or. 137, 139, and 141.
Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
Layout: 9 long lines.
Script: Naskh with elements of ruqʻah in black ink; fully vocalized.
Decoration: Sūrah headings in red, green and purple; red roundels mark verse ends; readings in red.
Shelfmark: MS Or 140.
Origin: Possibly written in Egypt at the end of the eighteenth century. This copy was likely donated with others from this set in early 1800.

Keyword:

quarter covers

codices (bound manuscripts)

Qur'ans

manuscripts (documents)

Early works

envelope flaps (features)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Qurʼan

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13893195

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_13893195_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library