Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, UTS MS Arab 2

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6692

Shelfmark:

UTS MS Arab 2

Title:

al-Qurʼān

Date:

16--?-17--?

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic with some notes in Persian

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 412, i leaves : paper, illuminations ; 226 x 136 (152 x 78) mm, bound to 234 x 152 x 58 mm

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left. Hindu-Arabic numeral folio numbers added in ink, upper center recto with sūrah header and juzʼ number on upper right verso. References in the record are to the modern foliation.
Layout: Written in 12 long lines; catchwords every verso, lower left; border-ruled.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
Decoration: Faint traces of a frontispiece with central shamsah (f. 2r); dual-page illuminated first opening in blue and gold containing sūrat al-Fātiḥah (f. 2v-3r). Polychrome illuminated headpiece (f. 3v) at the top of the beginning of sūrat al-Baqarah with the text of the full opening on cloudbands with gold, foliate marginal fill (f. 3v-4r). Surah headings in gold; gold roundels mark verse...
Origin: Item is undated; perhaps produced in the 17th or 18th century.
Shelfmark: UTS MS Arab. 2.
Square seal (f. 403v).

Keyword:

onlays (decorative components)

codices (bound manuscripts)

Qur'ans

Manuscripts

manuscripts (documents)

envelope flaps (features)

Qurʼan--Manuscripts

New York (State)--New York

Manuscripts, Arabic

Qurʼan

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15147191

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_15147191_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary