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<dl><dd>Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002</dd>
<dd>172 leaves : 113 x 67 (73 x 36) mm, bound to 115 x 72 mm</dd>
<dd>Contains a selection of 55 chapters from the Qur'ān with other prayers</dd>
<dd>Manuscript codex</dd>
<dd>Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left</dd>
<dd>Layout: 10 ruled lines; border-ruled</dd>
<dd>Script: Written in naskh in black ink; some elements in nastaʻliq; pointed, partially vocalized</dd>
<dd>Decoration: Dual-page illuminated first opening with polychrome and gold headpiece, gold floral margin fill and text on cloudbands (f. 1v-[2]r). All other pages are ruled in between each line in gold and black and border-ruled in gold, black, red. Gold roundels mark verse endings. Rubrications in red, including headers and readings</dd>
<dd>Origin: Item is not dated, but likely copied in Iran in the 18th century or first half of the 19th century</dd>
<dd>Shelfmark: MS Or 203</dd>
<dd>Customs stamp dated 1312/1934 (f. 1r, 171v)</dd>
<dd>Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934</dd>
<dd>Lacquer cover with red central floral medallion with painted flower in-fill and two matching pendants along the vertical axis on an orange background with an inscribed frame in off white on a red background. Bright orange paper 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/14230585">http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14230585</a>" rel="nofollow"&gt;go to CLIO&lt;/a&gt;</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Islam -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800; Prayer -- Islam -- Early works to 1800; Manuscripts, Arabic; Islam; Prayer -- Islam</div>
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