Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 169 - FOLIO

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6550

Shelfmark:

MS Or 169 - FOLIO

Title:

al-Qurʼān

Place:

Iran or South Asia?

Iran TGN

Date:

1818 or 1819.

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic with translation in Persian

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 online resource (i, 247 leaves :) paper, illuminations

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords have been added to some versos, lower left.
Layout: 10 long lines with 10 interlinear lines.
Script: Written chiefly in muḥaqqaq with titles in thuluth; replacement pages in naskh with Persian translation in nastaʻliq.
Decoration: Rubrications and translation in red. Red and white, or sometimes red and green knot motif marginal medallions. Red open circles mark verse ends. Sūrah titles in green, except in the replacement pages where they are red.
Shelfmark: MS Or 169 - FOLIO.
Origin: Copy completed in 1234 AH (f. 247r).
Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I157.
Customs stamp solar dated 1312/1934 (f. 1r, 247v); owner's stamp (Flyleaf 1r).
Sold by Mottahedeh Resht (trademark pasted into inside front cover).

Keyword:

blind-tooled (decoration)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Qur'ans

Early works

manuscripts (documents)

Stamps

Manuscripts, Persian

Manuscripts, Arabic

Qurʼan

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13893217

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_13893217_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library