Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 206

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6557

Shelfmark:

MS Or 206

Title:

al-Qurʼān

Place:

Iran or Syria?

Iran TGN

Date:

between 1600 and 1799?

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 224 leaves : laid paper ; 105 x 67 (80 x 38) mm, bound to 105 x 75 mm

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Layout: 17 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
Decoration: Rubrications in red: readings, sūrah headings (some very faded), marginal text division markers.
Origin: Colophon has been mostly scrubbed, though the nisbah Iṣfahānī is visible. Probably copied in the 17th or 18th century.
Shelfmark: MS Or 206.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Qur'ans

Early works

manuscripts (documents)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Qurʼan

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14230596

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14230596_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library