Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 358

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6630

Shelfmark:

MS Or 358

Title:

Majmūʻah

Date:

1711-1712.

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iv, 126, vi leaves : laid paper ; 205 x 149 (145 x 100) mm, bound to 207 x 152 mm

Former Owner(s):

Mohammed bin Hamed bu Osman / محمد بن حامد ابو عثمان،

Mohammed bin Hamed bu Osman WIKIDATA

Cotheal, Alexander Isaac, 1804-1894

Alexander Isaac Cotheal WIKIDATA

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Layout: 17-19 long lines; some poetry in two columns.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Rubrications in red; some red circles with black dots in the middle punctuate the text; sets of three red dots mark lines of poetry; three tables in red and black (f. 123v-124v).
Origin: Copy completed between Shawwāl 1123 (f. 95r) and Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1124 (f. 115r).
Shelfmark: MS Or 358.
Formerly owned by Mohammed bin Hamed bu Osman; given to Alexander Cotheal in June 1852 (note in pencil on inside back cover).
Formerly owned by Alexander I. Cotheal (stamps f. 1r, 126v).

Keyword:

tables (documents)

full covers

blind-tooled (decoration)

Islamic bindings

codices (bound manuscripts)

compilation manuscripts

Early works

manuscripts (documents)

envelope flaps (features)

Manuscripts, Arabic

Qurʼan

Arabic language--Grammar

Astronomy, Arab

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14642747

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_14642747_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library