Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 319

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6592

Shelfmark:

MS Or 319

Title:

al-Qurʼān

Place:

Iran

Iran TGN

Date:

17--?

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 online resource (6 + 303 foliated leaves + 5) : paper, illuminations

Former Owner(s):

American Type Founders Company. Typographic Library and Museum

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Layout: 17 long lines with shortened sūrah titles every recto, upper left corner. Catchwords every verso, lower left. Textblock is border ruled and page-opening frame ruled.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
Decoration: Four sets of dual page illuminations with inner borders of pink and orange flowers and outer borders of gold and blue with blue finials (f. 1v-2r, 137v-138r, 302v-303r). Six sets of simpler dual page illuminations of gold foliate marginal fill with pink and orange flower text block border (f. 2v-3r, 51v-52r, 100v-101r, 181v-182r, 221v-222r, 257v-258r). Gold and blue illuminated...
Origin: Item is undated, but likely produced in the 18th century, in Iran.
Shelfmark: MS Or 319.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Qur'ans

illuminations (paintings)

Lacquered bindings

Early works

Qurʼan--Specimens

Manuscripts, Arabic

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14294930

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14294930_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library