"Tafsio" Commentary on the Qurʾan.

Accession number

MS W.23

Object title

Display Date

1864-1865.

Created

1864-1865.

Binding

Dark brown leather with woven ribbon fabric appliqué in floral design on upper and lower covers; in octagonal tin box (label reads: Silver tin 150 years old, time of king Fathali Kajar. Made in Shiras) with relief inscriptions in Arabic around upper lid, and a framed inscription on four of the side panels.

Credit line

Bequest of Julia Parker Wightman, 1994.

Description

188 leaves (1 column, 11 lines), bound : paper ; 40 mm, octagonal format.

Provenance

Purchased by Julia Parker Wightman in 1974 (JPW 7710); Julia Parker Wightman Bequest in 1994.

Notes

Ms. "Tafsio" commentary on the Koran; written in Shiraz, Iran, 1243/1864-1865.
Colophon bears the date 1243/1864-1865.

Script

naskh

Language

Arabic