Exhibition: The Quran in East and West: Manuscripts and Printed Books
Item appears in the following exhibition pageItem Information Dublin CoreTitleQur'an, cover, inside front cover note
SubjectQur'an circulation
Descriptioninformation about the previous owner and the approximate age of Qur'an manuscript
CreatorHowbridge, Tillman C.
Datemanuscript note - 9 June 1868
manuscript - between 1600 and 1800
Languageeng
IdentifierCLIO id: 4488501
Additional Item MetadataSpatial CoverageArab provinces of the Ottoman Empire
Provenancein the bottom right corner, there is a second note, dated 20 May 1883 and stating that Howbridge's nephew - his name is illegible - sold the Quran manuscript to the library of Union Theological Seminary
Citationunpublished
MODSKey Date1868-06-09
Type of Dateex
Place of OriginConstantinople
Form/Genremanuscripts
Physical Descriptionpiece of paper pasted into the cover of Burke Arabic MS 3
Repository Namennc-ut
Shelf LocationBurke Arabic MS 3
Notesthe note is dated 9 June 1868, and was written by Tillman C. Howbridge, an American missionary, in Istanbul
Howbridge recorded that he had received this Quran manuscript from his Turkish teacher Arif Bey, when he was living in Erzurum, in eastern Anatolia while Howbridge's Turkish teacher could not give him an approximate date for the manuscript, a Turkish acquaintance told him in Istanbul that the manuscript was about 300 years old Language of Catalogingeng
Digital Originrd
CollectionArabic manuscripts collection
Still Image Item Type MetadataOriginal Formatbook with envelope binding
Physical Dimensions27 x 18 cm (board)
CitationHowbridge, Tillman C., “Qur'an, cover, inside front cover note,” Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed April 18, 2024, https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/quran/item/6169. |