Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 318

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6591

Shelfmark:

MS Or 318

Title:

al-Qurʼān

Scribe:

Shukrī, ʻAlī / شكري، علي

Ali Shukri WIKIDATA

Artist:

ʻAlī ibn Ḥamzah / علي بن حمزة

ʻAlī ibn Ḥamzah WIKIDATA

Place:

Turkey

Turkey TGN

Date:

1799 or 1800.

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 online resource (346 leaves) : paper, illuminations

Former Owner(s):

American Type Founders Company. Typographic Library and Museum

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from colophon (f. 346r).
Layout: 15 long lines; border-ruled.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
Decoration: Textblock border-ruled in double gold, blue and red. Rubrications in red. Dual-page polychrome illuminated first page-opening with text on cloudbands and blue and red floral radial line in the margins (f. 1v-2r). Polychrome gilded floral sunset and star-shaped medallions in the margins. Gilded polychrome sūrah headings with text in white ink. Gold roundels with pink and blue dots...
Origin: Copy completed in 1214 AH by ʻAlī al-Shukrī. Gilding and binding done by ʻAlī ibn Ḥamzah (f. 346r).
Shelfmark: MS Or 318.

Keyword:

full covers

codices (bound manuscripts)

Qur'ans

illuminations (paintings)

Early works

manuscripts (documents)

envelope flaps (features)

Qurʼan--Specimens

Manuscripts, Arabic

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14294929

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14294929_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library