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 illuminated copy of the Qur’an was excecuted in Shaʿbān 723 AH / 1323 CE by Mubārakshāh ibn Quṭb, honored with the epithet zarrīn qalam (golden pen). Mubārakshāh ibn Quṭb was one of the six pupils of the illustrious calligrapher Yāqūt al-Mustaʿṣimī (d. 698 AH / 1298 CE). This manuscript, with a colophon signed and dated by Mubārakshāh (fol. 432a), was produced in Ilkhanid, Iran. It opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece of geometric design painted in blue, black, gold, and green (fols. 1b-2a). Additional ornamentation includes verse markers and textual dividers. The Qur'anic text is written in naskh script in black ink with chapter headings in gold tawqī‘ outlined in black. The Persian interlinear translation in red naskh likely belongs to a later stage of the manuscript's history, when it was rebound and furnished with new margins. The black goatskin binding has a gold-tooled design of a central lobed medallion, pendants, and cornerpieces with doublures of brown leather and filigree decoration. It probably dates to the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE.
Written in small naskh in black ink; sūrah headings in gold tawqīʿ outlined in black; naskh in red ink for interlinear Persian translation
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Copy 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
Shaʿbān 723 AH / 1323 CE
book
Non-original Binding
Probably tenth century AH / sixteenth CE; black goatskin (with flap); gold-tooled central lobed oval with pendants and cornerpieces decorated with floral and vine motif; gold-tooled frame; doublures of brown leather with a lobed oval, pendants, and cornerpieces, all with filigree decoration on a dark blue ground
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic. The secondary language of this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Iran
Shaʿbān 723 AH / 1323 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic. The secondary language of this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This illuminated copy of the Qur’an was excecuted in Shaʿbān 723 AH / 1323 CE by Mubārakshāh ibn Quṭb, honored with the epithet zarrīn qalam (golden pen). Mubārakshāh ibn Quṭb was one of the six pupils of the illustrious calligrapher Yāqūt al-Mustaʿṣimī (d. 698 AH / 1298 CE). This manuscript, with a colophon signed and dated by Mubārakshāh (fol. 432a), was produced in Ilkhanid, Iran. It opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece of geometric design painted in blue, black, gold, and green (fols. 1b-2a). Additional ornamentation includes verse markers and textual dividers. The Qur'anic text is written in naskh script in black ink with chapter headings in gold tawqī‘ outlined in black. The Persian interlinear translation in red naskh likely belongs to a later stage of the manuscript's history, when it was rebound and furnished with new margins. The black goatskin binding has a gold-tooled design of a central lobed medallion, pendants, and cornerpieces with doublures of brown leather and filigree decoration. It probably dates to the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE.
Written in small naskh in black ink; sūrah headings in gold tawqīʿ outlined in black; naskh in red ink for interlinear Persian translation
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Copy 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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