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<dl><dd>Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002</dd>
<dd>ii + 40 + ii leaves : 150 x 105 (90 x 60) mm, bound to 150 x 105 x 10 mm</dd>
<dd>Collection of prayers, excerpts from the Qurʼān and calligraphic illuminations</dd>
<dd>Manuscript codex</dd>
<dd>Title supplied by cataloger</dd>
<dd>Layout: 9 lines generally forming an oval shape, border-ruled with corner decorations; several leaves have full page calligraphic illuminations</dd>
<dd>Script: Naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized. Calligraphic lluminations and headers in thuluth</dd>
<dd>Decoration: Polychrome and gold floral headpiece (f. 1v); floral sprays in gold, or green and pink or red in the corners of the textblock on each leaf shape the text to an oval; textblock border-ruled in black and gold; gold roundels punctuate the text. Circular or oval calligraphic panels set into a frame of gold with pink or blue highlights and floral sprays in the corners (f. 22v-26v)</dd>
<dd>Origin: Item is not dated, but likely produced in the 18th century</dd>
<dd>Shelfmark: MS Or 138</dd>
<dd>Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934</dd>
<dd>Brown leather with envelope flap with gold ruled border and floral central motif. Green, glossy, embossed doublure</dd>
<dd>Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description</dd>
<dd>Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2020, funded by CLIR</dd>
<dd><b>Columbia University Catalog: </b>&lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13893159">http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13893159</a>" rel="nofollow"&gt;go to CLIO&lt;/a&gt;</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Qurʼan. Selections; Qurʼan; Prayer -- Islam -- Early works to 1800; Manuscripts, Arabic; Prayer -- Islam</div>
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