Accession number
MS G.69
Object title
Qurʼan (MS G.69).
Display Date
ca. 1800.
Created
Kashmir, India, ca. 1800.
Binding
19th-century gilt-tooled red morocco, gilt and gauffered edges.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
517 leaves (1 column, 13 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 185 x 103 mm
Provenance
Purchased in India in 1933 by Henry S. Glazier and given to his brother William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York, in the same year; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Kashmir, India, ca. 1800.
Decoration: 8 double pages of richly illuminated borders, 1 half-page decorative panel, headings in white on illuminated panels; numerous devices in margins.
Decoration: 8 double pages of richly illuminated borders, 1 half-page decorative panel, headings in white on illuminated panels; numerous devices in margins.
Script
naskh
Language
Arabic
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