Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 234

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DS ID:

DS6563

Shelfmark:

MS Or 234

Title:

al-Qurʼān / القرآن

Qurʼan

Place:

Turkey?

Turkey TGN

Date:

17-- or 18--

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

nineteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

laid paper, illuminations

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 281 foliated leaves : laid paper, illuminations ; 210 x 145 (162 x 79) mm, bound to 210 x 150 mm

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Decoration: Matching illuminated headpieces in beige, pink and green on the first opening (f. 1v-2r). Sūrah headers in red ink. Rubrications in red. Readings in red. Verse endings marked by a red open circle or heart shape.
Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I114.
Layout: 12 to 15 lines per page. Some pages, particularly near the beginning, have two lines of text in larger thuluth followed by four lines of text in smaller naskh, three lines in larger thuluth, four lines in smaller naskh and a final two lines in larger thuluth. Most pages have text of a uniform size.
Manuscript codex.
Origin: Item is undated, but probably copied in the 18th or 19th century, perhaps in Turkey.
Script: Written in naskh and thuluth in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
Shelfmark: MS Or 234.
Title supplied by cataloger.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

envelope flaps (features)

full covers

illuminations (paintings)

manuscripts (documents)

Early works

Islamic bindings

Qur'ans

blind-tooled (decoration)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Qurʼan

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13673627

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14230714_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library