Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 222
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS6560
- Shelfmark:
- MS Or 222
- Title:
- al-Qurʼān
- Scribe:
- Iṣfahānī, Muḥammad Muḥsin / اصفهاني، محمد محسن،
- Place:
- Iran?
- Date:
- 1728.
- Language:
- Arabic with Persian translation and marginal notes
- Physical Description:
- Extent: iv, 392, iii leaves : non-European laid paper, illuminations ; 242 x 152 (163 x 93) mm, bound to 248 x 160 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944
- Note:
- Manuscript codex.
Title from colophon (f. 392r).
Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left; sūrah title in red every recto, upper left.
Layout: 22 gold-ruled lines alternating full and half height with Arabic in the full height and Persian in the half-height. Central line of each page in gold display script.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized with translation in nastaʻlīq in red ink; pointed. Central line of each page in muḥaqqaq in gold ink; pointed, vocalized.
Decoration: Double-page polychrome (chiefly blue, pink, red) and gold illuminated opening (f. 1v-2r). Illuminated sūrah headings in red ink on gold cartouche framed in many different polychrome patterns; marginal text division markers in gold pointed medallion shape with a blue finial surrounded by bright, multi-colored flames. Verse endings marked by four petal rosette with a green center...
Shelfmark: MS Or 222.
Origin: Copy completed in Ramaḍān 1140 AH (1728 CE) by Muḥammad Muḥsin al-Iṣfahānī (f. 392r), probably in Iran.
Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I147.
Customs stamp solar dated 1310/1932 (f. 1r, 392v). Owner's stamp in triplicate, possibly dated 1318/1900-01 (f. 392r). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14230690
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14230690_000/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
