قرآن

Walters Ms. W.575, Koran

Walters Ms. W.575, Koran

al-Qurʾān

القرآن

This small, illuminated single-volume copy of Qurʾan was produced in Iran in the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE. The manuscript opens with an illuminated double-page incipit with the verses of chapter 1 (Sūrat al-fātiḥah) and the initial verses of chapter 2 (Sūrat al-baqarah) decorated with interlinear illumination and framed by a polychrome border and headpieces of floral design on a blue ground (fols. 2b-3a). The text is written in a vocalized naskh script in black with reading marks in red and text divisions of sixty verses (ḥizb), thirty verses (juzʾ), and niṣf al-juzʾ inscribed in red in the margins. Illuminated discs with colored dots separate the verses. Chapter headings are in red or blue riqāʿ script on a gold background. The nineteenth-century lacquer binding with floral composition on a red field is contemporary with the manuscript. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W575/description.html

The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.

Illuminated double-page incipit (fols. 2b-3a); inner and outer framing lines in gold and black; illuminated discs with central red dots as verse markers

fol. 2b Right side of illuminated double-page incipit Incipit This is the right side of an illuminated double-page incipit. It is inscribed with the name of chapter 1 (Sūrat al-fātiḥah) and the phrase: lā yamassuhu illá al-muṭahharūn (only the ritually pure should touch it).

fol. 5a Text page of chapter 2 Text page The text is written in a vocalized naskh script in black ink with reading marks in red. Illuminated discs with colored dots separate the verses.

fol. 183b Text page of chapter 114 Text page The text is written in a vocalized naskh script in black ink with reading marks in red. Illuminated discs with colored dots separate the verses.

13th century AH / 19th CE

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Arabic

paper

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