قرآن

Walters Ms. W.569, Koran

Walters Ms. W.569, Koran

al-Qurʾān

القرآن

This illuminated copy of the Qur'an was produced in the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE in Iran. Apart from using a number of scripts, such as naskh, muḥaqqaq, and tawqīʿ, the manuscript features six pairs of decorated pages; two illuminated headpieces; and chapter headings, interlinear illumination, and marginal decoration. The Qur'anic text begins on fol. 2b and ends on fol. 331a. It is followed by a prayer (duʿāʾ) and a table of divination (taf'ul) in Arabic and Persian (fols. 332b-333a).The black leather binding has a central piece in the form of a diamond with pendants on four sides. The inner boards, with their traditional dentelle decoration, feature text from the "verse of the throne" (āyat al-kursī), 2:255-6, which is inscribed in the outer frame. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W569/description.html

The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic. The secondary language of this manuscript is Persian.

Six pairs of decorated pages (fols. 1b-2a, 2b-3a, 152b-153a, 331b-332a, and 332b-333a); two illuminated headpieces (fols. 3b and 154a); illuminated chapter headings; interlinear illumination; decorated borders; polychrome framing lines; marginal decorations and verse markers

fol. 1b Right side of an illuminated double-page frontispiece Frontispiece

fol. 2a Left side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece Frontispiece

fol. 2b Right side of a double-page opening inscribed with verses of chapter 1 Opening decoration This is the right side of a double-page opening decoration containing the text of chapter 1 (Sūrat al-fātiḥah) inscribed in the center medallion in gold muḥaqqaq script on a blue background.

fol. 3a Left side of a double-page opening inscribed with verses of chapter 1 Opening decoration This is the left side of a double-page opening decoration containing the text of chapter 1 (Sūrat al-fātiḥah) inscribed in the center medallion in gold muḥaqqaq script on a blue background.

fol. 3b Illuminated incipit page with headpiece Incipit This illuminated incipit page introduces chapter 2 (Sūrat al-baqarah).

fol. 152b Illuminated page with verses from the end of chapter 17 Illuminated page; chapter heading This illuminated page contains verses from the end of chapter 17 (Sūrat Banī Isrāʾīl) inscribed in the center medallion in white muḥaqqaq script.

fol. 153b Decorated incipit page with headpiece introducing chapter 18 Incipit This is a decorated incipit page with an illuminated headpiece introducing chapter 18 (Sūrat al-kahf).

fol. 331b Right side of an illuminated finispiece with inscribed prayer Finispiece This richly decorated page contains a prayer to be recited at the end of the Qur'anic text. The prayer is inscribed in the center medallion in white muḥaqqaq script.

fol. 332b Right side of a double-page table of divination (bibliomancy or tafa'ul) Finispiece This is the right side of a table of divination (bibliomancy or tafa'ul) executed in Arabic in tawqīʿ script and in Persian in nastaʿlīq script. The top inscription reads: fī al-tafa<ʾ>ul min kalām Allāh al-Majīd.

fol. 333a Left side of a double-page table of divination (bibliomancy or tafa'ul) Finispiece This is the left side of a table of divination (bibliomancy or tafa'ul) executed in Arabic in tawqīʿ script and in Persian in nastaʿlīq script.

11th century AH / 17th CE

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Arabic

No other languages recorded.

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