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 is a fragment of the Qur'an, consisting of chapters 19 (Sūrat Maryam) through 23 (Sūrat al-muʾminūn). It was produced in the Maghreb and dates to the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE. The text is written in a large Maghribī script, with vocalization in red, green, and yellow ink on Italian paper. The codex opens with an illuminated chapter heading for chapter 19 (Sūrat Maryam) written in the New Abbasid (broken cursive) style (fol. 1b) in gold ink within a decorative headpiece. The titles of other chapters are written in the New Abbasid (broken cursive) style in gold ink (fols. 21a, 47b, 70a, and 102a) with a marginal medallion. The blind-tooled goatskin binding is not contemporary with the manuscript and probably dates to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.
Written in large Maghribī script vocalized in red ink, with a yellow dot for hamzah and a green dot for waṣlah; chapter headings in New Abbasid (broken cursive) style
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
12th century AH / 18th CE
book
Original Binding
Probably thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE; red goatskin (with flap); lobed medallion with floral pattern in relief, outlined by double fillets of gold tooling extending above and below the axis of the design; small medallion on flap
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Maghreb
12th century AH / 18th CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This square-format manuscript is a fragment of the Qur'an, consisting of chapters 19 (Sūrat Maryam) through 23 (Sūrat al-muʾminūn). It was produced in the Maghreb and dates to the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE. The text is written in a large Maghribī script, with vocalization in red, green, and yellow ink on Italian paper. The codex opens with an illuminated chapter heading for chapter 19 (Sūrat Maryam) written in the New Abbasid (broken cursive) style (fol. 1b) in gold ink within a decorative headpiece. The titles of other chapters are written in the New Abbasid (broken cursive) style in gold ink (fols. 21a, 47b, 70a, and 102a) with a marginal medallion. The blind-tooled goatskin binding is not contemporary with the manuscript and probably dates to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE.
Written in large Maghribī script vocalized in red ink, with a yellow dot for hamzah and a green dot for waṣlah; chapter headings in New Abbasid (broken cursive) style
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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