Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 317 - FOLIO

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6686

Shelfmark:

MS Or 317 - FOLIO

Title:

al-Qurʼān

Scribe:

Tabrīzī, ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn, active 1602 / تبريزى، علاء الدين، active 1602،

Alaeddin Tabrizi WIKIDATA

Place:

Iran?

Iran TGN

Date:

1602 or 1603.

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ii, 299, i leaves : inset paper, illuminations ; 302 x 203 (163 x 97) mm, bound to 308 x 210 x 65 mm

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title from prayer at end (f. 299r).
Layout: Written in 14 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left; border-ruled.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed and vocalized; last two pages written in taʻlīq in black ink; pointed.
Decoration: Dual-page illuminated first opening in gold with blue, polychrome vines and leaves (f. 1r-2v); sūrah headings in white ink on gold background set into a blue rectangle with polychrome floral fill on either end; finispiece of gold leaves and vines around colophon (f. 299r); readings in red.
Origin: Copy completed in 1011 A.H. (1602 or 1603 CE) by ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn al-Tabrīzī (f. 299r).
Shelfmark: MS Or 317 - FOLIO.
Persian customs stamps solar dated 1312 (1933 CE) (f. 1r, 299v).
Formerly owned by David Eugene Smith (library bookplate first flyleaf verso at front of book; signature in pencil second flyleaf recto at front of book).

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

manuscripts (documents)

illuminations (paintings)

Lacquered bindings

Manuscripts

Early works

Qur'ans

Qurʼan--Manuscripts

Manuscripts, Arabic

Qurʼan

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15147174

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_15147174_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library