Accession number
MS M.657
Object title
One hundred and eleven leaves from a Qurʼan (MS M.657).
Display Date
10th century.
Created
10th century.
Binding
Bound in red niger morocco by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in 1940.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1922.
Description
111 leaves (7 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 113 x 175 mm
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) from Lionel Cust, London, 1922.
Notes
Ms. written and decorated in the 10th century.
Texts: sura 29, al-ʻAnkabūt (the Spider), verse 67, to sura 30, al-Rūm (the Greeks), verse 27 (fol. 1v-9v); verse 50 to sura 35, al-Fāṭir (the Creator), verse 45 (fol. 10-111v).
Decoration: written in brownish black ink with voweling in red, green, and yellow dots and diacriticals in brown, red, and green; sura titles written in gold outlined in black; every fifth verse is marked by a gold haʼ̄ and every tenth by a six-petal roseette outlined in gold and with a gold center; each rosette is inscribed in the center with the cumulative verse total in brown ink; illuminated ornaments on fol. 49v-50.
Texts: sura 29, al-ʻAnkabūt (the Spider), verse 67, to sura 30, al-Rūm (the Greeks), verse 27 (fol. 1v-9v); verse 50 to sura 35, al-Fāṭir (the Creator), verse 45 (fol. 10-111v).
Decoration: written in brownish black ink with voweling in red, green, and yellow dots and diacriticals in brown, red, and green; sura titles written in gold outlined in black; every fifth verse is marked by a gold haʼ̄ and every tenth by a six-petal roseette outlined in gold and with a gold center; each rosette is inscribed in the center with the cumulative verse total in brown ink; illuminated ornaments on fol. 49v-50.
Script
Kufic
Language
Arabic
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