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 / القرآن

Qurʼan

Place:

Iran or South Asia?

Iran TGN

South Asia TGN

Date:

1818 or 1819.

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic with translation in Persian

Arabic WIKIDATA

Persian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper, illuminations

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 247 leaves : paper, illuminations ; 300 x 240 (250 x 180) mm, bound to 310 x 245 mm

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

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.
Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords have been added to some versos, lower left.
Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I157.
Layout: 10 long lines with 10 interlinear lines.
Manuscript codex.
Origin: Copy completed in 1234 AH (f. 247r).
Script: Written chiefly in muḥaqqaq with titles in thuluth; replacement pages in naskh with Persian translation in nastaʻliq.
Shelfmark: MS Or 169 - FOLIO.
Title supplied by cataloger.
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:

codices (bound manuscripts)

manuscripts (documents)

Early works

Stamps

Qur'ans

blind-tooled (decoration)

Manuscripts, Persian

Manuscripts, Arabic

Qurʼan

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13673000

IIIF Manifest:

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

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library