Accession number
MS W.54
Object title
Qurʾan.
Created
Constantinople, 1870
Binding
19th-century Turkish brown leather envelope binding with folding flap, main panels have center rectangle with green and gold painted cross-work in leaf design, bordered by 2 block-stamped fillets of interconnecting S-shapes, painted gold over green, the gold mostly worn off. Cerise glossy paper pastedowns and flyleaves.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia Parker Wightman, 1994.
Description
307 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : polished paper, ill. ; 164 x 114 mm
Provenance
Purchased by Julia Parker Wightman in 1941; JPW 1661; Julia Parker Wightman Bequest in 1994.
Notes
Ms. koran; written and illuminated in Constantinople (?) in 1870.
Colophon on fol. 307; according to Anne Contedini, 4/11/01, colophon reads H.1287 = A.D. 1870
Scribe: Muhammad Shākir.
Decoration: 3 illuminated title pages and 1 illuminated colophon page, text written within blue bordered circle, richly ornamented borders and decorative panels on gold leaf ground. Sūra headings in white on gold cartouches in the center of panels.
Colophon on fol. 307; according to Anne Contedini, 4/11/01, colophon reads H.1287 = A.D. 1870
Scribe: Muhammad Shākir.
Decoration: 3 illuminated title pages and 1 illuminated colophon page, text written within blue bordered circle, richly ornamented borders and decorative panels on gold leaf ground. Sūra headings in white on gold cartouches in the center of panels.
Script
naskh
Language
Arabic
Century
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