Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 186

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6554

Shelfmark:

MS Or 186

Title:

al-Qurʼān

Scribe:

Iṣfahānī, Muḥammad / اصفهاني، محمد

Muḥammad Iṣfahānī WIKIDATA

Place:

Iran?

Iran TGN

Date:

1680.

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 241 leaves: laid paper ; 156 x 98 (103 x 51) mm bound to 160 x 100 x 30 mm.

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from colophon (f. 240r).
Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
Layout: 14 ruled lines; border-ruled.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
Decoration: Double page illuminated opening in gold, blue, pink, orange, green with text on cloudbands; margin fill of yellow and orange flowers with gold leaves. Textblock of the rest of the pages is gold-sprinkled with gold rules between each line and around the outside. Page opening is framed in a gold rule. Gold roundels mark verse endings. Sūrah headings and text divisions written in gold...
Shelfmark: MS Or 186.
Origin: Copy completed on 4 Rajab 1091 by Muḥammad al-Isfahānī (f. 240r), possibly in Iran.
Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I116.
Customs stamp dated 1312 (f. 1r, 240v).

Keyword:

full covers

codices (bound manuscripts)

Qur'ans

illuminations (paintings)

Early works

manuscripts (documents)

trough-marbled paper

Manuscripts, Arabic

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14230574

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14230574_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library