Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 190

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6555

Shelfmark:

MS Or 190

Title:

al-Qurʼān

Place:

India?

India TGN

Date:

between 1600 and 1799?

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 341 leaves: Non-European laid paper ; 165 x 106 (120 x 65) mm, bound to 165 x 106 mm.

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 every verso, lower left.
Layout: 13 long lines.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
Decoration: Fragmentary polychrome (green, blue, red, black, pink) and gold illuminated dual-page opening (f. 1v-2r). Fragmentary gold vegetal marginal fill (f. 2v-3r); four complete floral marginal fill (f. 58v-59r, 78v-79r, 111v-112r, 275v-276). Text is written entirely on cloudbands with gold fill between the lines. Textblock is border ruled in gold and black. Page openings are ruled with a...
Shelfmark: MS Or 190.
Origin: Item is undated, though probably copied in the 17th or 18th century, perhaps in India.
Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I12.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Qur'ans

illuminations (paintings)

Early works

manuscripts (documents)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Qurʼan

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14230576

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14230576_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library