Qur'an, two pages, cover

Islam

Images from complete copy of the Quran

undated (between 1850 and 1899)

ara

CLIO id: 4584023

Iran

presented to the library of Union Theological Seminary by the children of Henry Preserved Smith (1847-1927)
the UTS library stamp is dated 20 February 1935

Smith was a clergyman and influential biblical scholar who from 1913 until 1925 served as the Librarian of Union Theological Seminary; cf. John L. Farthing, "Smith, Henry Preserved," in: American National Biography Online, Feb. 2000.

unpublished

1800 1899

in

Iran

books

lithograph

brittle machine-made wove paper

nnc-ut

OT40 1800+

neither seal impressions nor ownership notes
the crowns in the Occidentalist design of the binding seem to reflect the Qajar interest in the regal symbols of the mythical Kayanid dynasty

Physical Description of the item from which the digital images were taken:
the copy seems complete, and has neither title page nor colophon
the blind-tooled leather binding is contemporary with the textblock

reference:
Stephen Vernoit, Occidentalism: Islamic Art in the 19th Century, London 1997

eng

rd

Burke [UTS] Union Rare

printed book with envelope binding

19 x 12 cm (textblock)
19 x 12 cm (board) and 19 x 35 cm (complete binding)