Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
القرآن
Qurʼan.
al-Qurʼān
- Available as
- Physical
- Summary
-
Illuminated copy of the Qur'an (muṣḥaf).
Details
Checking for availability...
- Format
- Books
- Language
- Arabic
- Publication
-
- [Iran?, 17-- or 18--]
- Physical Details
-
- 600 leaves : paper
- OCLC
- on1112760889
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloguer.
- Layout: Written in 20 lines per page (single column)
- Script: Naskh ; careful hand with elements of Nayrizi style, mainly serifless but with slight barbed left-sloping serif on alif of lām-alif ligature, fairly vertical though with occasional very slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders (some sweeping), final and isolated nūn slightly angled with point set just inside deep but somewhat narrow bowl, pointing in distinct dots (two-dots occasionally written vertically), fully vocalized.
- Decoration: Double-page illumination at opening consisting of a series of scalloped domes in dark blue filled with simplified floral vegetal designs in shades of pink, red and white, surrounded by similar floral vegetal pattern in red, pale blue, and pink on a gold ground, written area (in 7 lines per page) of opening carrying Sūrat al-Fātiḥah and opening of Sūrat al-Baqarah flanked by upper and lower rectangular pieces with gold cartouches carrying the sūrah headings in red ink ; elsewhere sūrah headings of simple rectangular gold fields with titles in red ink, written area surrounded by gold frame with outermost blue rule and further blue rule in the margins ; sūrah headings and abbreviation marks all rubricated ; verse dividers in the form of gold discs.
- Binding: Thick boards covered in painted lacquerwork, spine in brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in brown wove paper ; upper and lower covers bear paintings of nearly identical floral composition incorporating clusters of peonies, roses, and other blooms in shades of pink, red, white, blue, etc on a dark green ground, set off by border of further floral designs.
- Origin: Lacks dated colophon. Decoration, binding, etc. suggest 18th or 19th century.
- Shelfmark: Madison, University of Wisconsin, MS 564
- In Arabic.