Quran, cover, inside front cover note, 310, 311 and verso, 312 verso

Islam

complete copy of the Quran

undated (between 1600-1800)

ara

CLIO id: 4488501

Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire

Purchased in May 1883 from the nephew of the American missionary Tillman C. Howbridge for the library of Union Theological Seminary

M. Krek, "Islamic Manuscripts in North American Libraries: Part 5 - Union Theological Seminary Library," MELA Notes, no. 36 (Fall 1985), p. 5 s.v. 4

1600 1800

inferred

Anatolia or Syria

manuscripts

Burke Library, Columbia University

Burke Arabic MS 3

no colophon
marginal notes in Arabic
a single marginal note in Latin on fol. 28b
no seal impression or ownership note
a page pasted into the cover has two English ownership notes from the second half of the 19th century

Physical Description of Qu'ran from which digital images were taken:
stump of a removed endpaper is visible only at the end of the textblock
335 fols. with pencilled foliation in western numerals
18 fols. are later replacements: fols. 1-10, 242, 310, 323, and 331-335
manuscript is too tightly bound to determine the gatherings
the original manuscript is written on thick laid paper with visible regular chainlines
the replacement leaves look very similar, but they are much thinner
25 x 16.5-18 cm, because the replacement leaves vary in width
functional rubrication that is missing on the replacement leaves
blind-tooled leather binding with flap

reference:
for rubricated sura headings and the absence of text frames as features that point toward Syria, cf. a 17th century Quran in the Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art in: Manijeh Bayani et al., The Decorated Word: Qurʾans of the 17th to 19th Centuries, London 1999, pp. 57-59 s.v. 14

eng

rd

Arabic manuscripts collection

book with envelope binding

27 x 18 x 5.5 cm (textblock)
27 x 18 cm (board) and 27 x 56 cm (complete binding)