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The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This copy of the Qur'an was made in Iran, probably in the sixth century AH / twelfth CE. The text is written in the New Abbasid (broken cursive) style with vowels indicated by red dots and orthoepic signs such as tashdīd and sukūn in green. The codex opens with an illuminated double-page frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a) inscribed with the creed that the Qur’an is God’s word uncreated: al-Qur’ān kalām Allāh ghayr makhlūq wa-man qāla makhlūq fa-huwa kāfir bi-Allāh al-ʿAlī al-Aẓīm. The latter is also included in the explicit (fol. 285a). The Qur’anic text begins with an illuminated incipit for chapter 1 (Sūrat al-fātiḥah) and chapter 2 (Sūrat al-baqarah) (fols. 2b-3a). Throughout are illuminated chapter headings with marginal medallions, verse markers in teardrop form, marginal medallions indicating every tenth verse, illumination of the name of Allah, and indications for prostration. The dentelle-style brown goatskin binding with central lobed medallion, pendants, and cornerpieces is attributable to the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE.
Main text written in New Abbasid (broken cursive) style, partially serifed in dark brown ink with red dots for vowels and orthoepic signs, such as tashdīd and sukūn, in green; thuluth script in gold ink for the inscription on fols. 1b-2a
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.
Iran
6th century AH / 12th CE
book
Non-original Binding
Probably tenth century AH / sixteenth CE; dentelle-style brown goatskin (with flap); central lobed medallion, pendants, and cornerpieces
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.
Erased seal of Sultan ʿUthmān Khān ibn Muṣṭafá Khān II
Inscription in pencil: H[enry] W[alters] May 1897 direct from Constantinople (front flyleaf ia)
Iran
6th century AH / 12th CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.
Erased seal of Sultan ʿUthmān Khān ibn Muṣṭafá Khān II
Inscription in pencil: H[enry] W[alters] May 1897 direct from Constantinople (front flyleaf ia)
This copy of the Qur'an was made in Iran, probably in the sixth century AH / twelfth CE. The text is written in the New Abbasid (broken cursive) style with vowels indicated by red dots and orthoepic signs such as tashdīd and sukūn in green. The codex opens with an illuminated double-page frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a) inscribed with the creed that the Qur’an is God’s word uncreated: al-Qur’ān kalām Allāh ghayr makhlūq wa-man qāla makhlūq fa-huwa kāfir bi-Allāh al-ʿAlī al-Aẓīm. The latter is also included in the explicit (fol. 285a). The Qur’anic text begins with an illuminated incipit for chapter 1 (Sūrat al-fātiḥah) and chapter 2 (Sūrat al-baqarah) (fols. 2b-3a). Throughout are illuminated chapter headings with marginal medallions, verse markers in teardrop form, marginal medallions indicating every tenth verse, illumination of the name of Allah, and indications for prostration. The dentelle-style brown goatskin binding with central lobed medallion, pendants, and cornerpieces is attributable to the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE.
Main text written in New Abbasid (broken cursive) style, partially serifed in dark brown ink with red dots for vowels and orthoepic signs, such as tashdīd and sukūn, in green; thuluth script in gold ink for the inscription on fols. 1b-2a
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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