Accession number
MS M.1197
Object title
Qurʼan (MS M.1197).
Created
Kashmir, 19th century
Binding
Dark red lacquered papier-mache covers with three recessed medallions with paper onlays along vertical axis (large center ogive with embossed flowers in gold and green scalloped border, two small palmettes with embossed heart-shaped devices in green), border of multiple fillets and chain composed of "S" punches, rebacked, tabbed spine. For a similar binding, see Karin Scheper, The Technique of Islamic Bookbinding: Methods, Materials and Regional Varieties (Leiden: Brill, 2015), fig. 178.
Credit line
Gift of Lucy Adams in memory of George B. Adams, 2015.
Description
365 leaves, bound : paper, ill. ; 230 x 145 mm
Provenance
Hashim Khwaja (his seal dated to 1878 on fol. 7r); Hashim Khwaja ibn Qasim Khwaja (his seal dated to 1880 on fol. 363r); Swann Galleries, New York (22 March 1990, lot 91); George B. Adams; by descent to Lucy Adams; gift to the Morgan in memory of George B. Adams, 2015.
Notes
Decoration: 3 double-page elaborately decorated border pages at beginning and end.
Scribe: Shah Mahmud Kani
Two dated owner's seals appear on folios 7r and 363r (Hashim Khwaja, 1295/1878; and Hashim Khwaja ibn Qasim Khwaja, 1297/1880).
Scribe: Shah Mahmud Kani
Two dated owner's seals appear on folios 7r and 363r (Hashim Khwaja, 1295/1878; and Hashim Khwaja ibn Qasim Khwaja, 1297/1880).
Script
Naskh
Language
Arabic
Century
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