Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MS Or 253

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6707

Shelfmark:

MS Or 253

Title:

al-Qurʼān

Place:

Iran or India?

Iran TGN

Date:

17--?-18--?

eighteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic with one page translated into Persian

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: iii + 503 leaves : Laid paper, illuminations ; 195 x 124 (142 x 77) mm, bound to 202 x 125 mm

Former Owner(s):

Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

David Eugene Smith WIKIDATA

Note:

Manuscript codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Layout: 12 long lines; catchwords every verso lower left; border-ruled.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized; one page with nastaʻlīq in red ink; pointed.
Decoration: Gold and polychrome illuminated double-page openings at the beginning, middle, and end (f. 1v-2r, 227v-228r, 502v-503r); gold roundels mark verse endings; marginal medallions in gold mark text divisions; textblock border-ruled in black, red, blue, beige; lines ruled in beige; page-opening frame-ruled in blue; sūrah headings, readings, and rukūʻ markers in red.
Origin: Item is undated; possibly produced in the 18th or 19th century.
Customs stamp solar dated 1312 (1934 CE) (f. 1r, 503v).
Shelfmark: MS Or 253.
Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I122.
Formerly owned by an ʻĪsá in the year 13[--] AH (stamp in ink, first front flyleaf recto).

Keyword:

full covers

blind-tooled (decoration)

codices (bound manuscripts)

manuscripts (documents)

illuminations (paintings)

Qur'ans

Manuscripts

Early works

Manuscripts, Persian

Qurʼan--Manuscripts

Manuscripts, Arabic

Qurʼan

Institutional Record:

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15265590

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/ldpd_15265590_000/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library