The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This square-format manuscript on parchment is volume 9 (al-juzʾ al-tāsiʿ) of the Qur'an, covering chapter 29 (Sūrat ʿankabūt), verse 46, to the end of chapter 37 (Sūrat al-ṣaffat). It dates to the sixth century AH / twelfth CE and was produced in the Maghreb. The text is written in Maghribī script in dark brown ink and vocalized with polychrome dots. The manuscript opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 3b-4a) and incipit (fol. 4b). Verse markers in the shape of trefoils indicate the end of each verse, and the letter hāʾ in the form of a teardrop and discs with rosettes indicate groups of five and ten verses. The illuminated finispiece with colophon (fol. 133b) states that it is the end of volume 9 of the Qur'an (al-juzʾ al-tāsiʿ min al-rabʿah) and offers a prayer for the Prophet Muhammad and his family. The dark red goatskin binding dates to the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE.
Written in Maghribī script in dark brown ink with multicolored vocalization; Early Abbasid (Kufic) script for chapter headings and inscriptions in illuminated panels; Mashriqī, also known as thuluth Maghribī, for finispiece with colophon (fol. 133b)
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Maghreb
6th century AH / 12th CE
book
Non-original Binding
Probably tenth century AH / sixteenth CE, with later repairs; dark red goatskin (with flap); gold-tooled central lobed medallion with inner frame and cornerpieces; outer frame of interlocking "S" design
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Maghreb
6th century AH / 12th CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This square-format manuscript on parchment is volume 9 (al-juzʾ al-tāsiʿ) of the Qur'an, covering chapter 29 (Sūrat ʿankabūt), verse 46, to the end of chapter 37 (Sūrat al-ṣaffat). It dates to the sixth century AH / twelfth CE and was produced in the Maghreb. The text is written in Maghribī script in dark brown ink and vocalized with polychrome dots. The manuscript opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 3b-4a) and incipit (fol. 4b). Verse markers in the shape of trefoils indicate the end of each verse, and the letter hāʾ in the form of a teardrop and discs with rosettes indicate groups of five and ten verses. The illuminated finispiece with colophon (fol. 133b) states that it is the end of volume 9 of the Qur'an (al-juzʾ al-tāsiʿ min al-rabʿah) and offers a prayer for the Prophet Muhammad and his family. The dark red goatskin binding dates to the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE.
Written in Maghribī script in dark brown ink with multicolored vocalization; Early Abbasid (Kufic) script for chapter headings and inscriptions in illuminated panels; Mashriqī, also known as thuluth Maghribī, for finispiece with colophon (fol. 133b)
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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