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 large-format, illuminated Timurid copy of the Qur’an is believed to have been produced in Northern India in the ninth century AH / fifteenth CE. The manuscript opens with a series of illuminated frontispieces. The main text is written in a large, vocalized polychrome muḥaqqaq script. Marginal explanations of the readings of particular words and phrases are in thuluth and naskh scripts, and there is interlinear Persian translation in red naskh script. The fore-edge flap of the gold-tooled, brown leather binding is inscribed with verses 77 through 80 from Chapter 56 (Sūrat al-wāqiʿah). The seal of Sultan Bayezid II (886–917 AH / 1481-1512 CE) appears on fol. 8a. There is an erased bequest (waqf) statement and stamp of Sultan ʿUthmān Khān (432-6 AH / 1027-31 CE) on fol. 3a.
Written in three scripts throughout: 1. vocalized polychrome (black, gold, red, and blue) muḥaqqaq script, mainly for the Qur'anic text within the frame 2. thuluth script for some chapter headings (in gold or white) or Qur'anic words in the margins 3. naskh script for the Persian interlinear translation (in red) and explanations in the margins
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.
Northern India
9th century AH / 15th CE
book
Original Binding
Brown, gold-tooled leather (with flap); central lobed oval with pendants and cornerpieces, all with floral motifs; large border comprised of rectangular pieces with floral motifs; doublures of reddish-brown leather of similar design with filigree work on a blue ground; fore-edge flap inscribed with verses 77-80 from chapter 56 (Sūrat al-wāqiʿah)
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic. The secondary language of this manuscript is Persian.
Erased bequest
Seal of Sultan Bayezid II
Acquired from Mr. Dikran G. Kelekian
Northern India
9th century AH / 15th CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic. The secondary language of this manuscript is Persian.
Erased bequest
Seal of Sultan Bayezid II
Acquired from Mr. Dikran G. Kelekian
This large-format, illuminated Timurid copy of the Qur’an is believed to have been produced in Northern India in the ninth century AH / fifteenth CE. The manuscript opens with a series of illuminated frontispieces. The main text is written in a large, vocalized polychrome muḥaqqaq script. Marginal explanations of the readings of particular words and phrases are in thuluth and naskh scripts, and there is interlinear Persian translation in red naskh script. The fore-edge flap of the gold-tooled, brown leather binding is inscribed with verses 77 through 80 from Chapter 56 (Sūrat al-wāqiʿah). The seal of Sultan Bayezid II (886–917 AH / 1481-1512 CE) appears on fol. 8a. There is an erased bequest (waqf) statement and stamp of Sultan ʿUthmān Khān (432-6 AH / 1027-31 CE) on fol. 3a.
Written in three scripts throughout: 1. vocalized polychrome (black, gold, red, and blue) muḥaqqaq script, mainly for the Qur'anic text within the frame 2. thuluth script for some chapter headings (in gold or white) or Qur'anic words in the margins 3. naskh script for the Persian interlinear translation (in red) and explanations in the margins
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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