Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 256

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6571

Shelfmark:

MS Or 256

Title:

al-Juzʼ al-khāmis ʻashar

Place:

Syria or Turkey?

Syria TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1550?

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Layout: 5 lines per page

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 online resource (36 leaves) : paper

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Arabic.
Script: Written in mamluk style naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
Decoration: Surah titles in gold outlined in black. Gold eight petal rosettes with pink center lined by pink and blue dots mark verse endings.
Origin: Item is undated, but perhaps copied in the 15th to the mid-16th century.
Shelfmark: MS Or 256.
One volume of a Qur'ān set, of which RBML holds three volumes under separate shelfmarks; See also MSS Or. 257 and 258.
Given as a waqf (charitable endowment) for al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá al-Bakrī (inscription dated 1161/1748, f. 1r).

Keyword:

full covers

blind-tooled (decoration)

Islamic bindings

codices (bound manuscripts)

Qur'ans

pastedowns (features)

Early works

manuscripts (documents)

envelope flaps (features)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Qurʼan

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14230809

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14230809_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library