Exhibition: The Quran in East and West: Manuscripts and Printed Books
Item appears in the following exhibition pageThe Quran in East and West: Manuscripts and Printed Books: Qurans : Manuscripts Item InformationDublin CoreTitleQuran, cover, inside front cover note, 310, 311 and verso, 312 verso
SubjectIslam
Descriptioncomplete copy of the Quran
Dateundated (between 1600-1800)
Languageara
IdentifierCLIO id: 4488501
Additional Item MetadataSpatial CoverageArab provinces of the Ottoman Empire
ProvenancePurchased in May 1883 from the nephew of the American missionary Tillman C. Howbridge for the library of Union Theological Seminary
CitationM. Krek, "Islamic Manuscripts in North American Libraries: Part 5 - Union Theological Seminary Library," MELA Notes, no. 36 (Fall 1985), p. 5 s.v. 4
MODSKey Date1600 1800
Type of Dateinferred
Place of OriginAnatolia or Syria
Form/Genremanuscripts
Repository NameBurke Library, Columbia University
Shelf LocationBurke Arabic MS 3
Notesno 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 Language of Catalogingeng
Digital Originrd
CollectionArabic manuscripts collection
Still Image Item Type MetadataOriginal Formatbook with envelope binding
Physical Dimensions27 x 18 x 5.5 cm (textblock)
27 x 18 cm (board) and 27 x 56 cm (complete binding) Citation“Quran, cover, inside front cover note, 310, 311 and verso, 312 verso,” Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed December 4, 2024, https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/quran/item/6095. |