Details

Subject(s)

• Waqf—Books—History—18th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts—Iran—16th century [Browse]

Summary note

Illuminated copy of the Qurʾān. The text is followed by a prayer to be recited on concluding a reading of the Qurʾān (fol. 322a, beginning wanting), and by a short treatise on how to use the Qurʾān for divination, in Persian (fol. 322b-324a).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Physical description: 12 lines per page. Main text written in naskh in black ink, with reading marks in red. The sūrah headings are written in white thulth. Light cream paper ; glossy. Lacuna after fol. 321b.
• Chiefly quaternions.
• Decoration: Extensive illumination in gold and colors on fol. 1b-2a and 2b-3a, the latter bearing the text of the Fātiḥah. Illuminated headpiece on fol. 3b. The text on fol. 3b-4a is set in clouds over a gold ground with fragmentary arabesque in colors. The same decoration appears on fol. 147b-148a, with the addition of a large illuminated border. Text areas are framed in orange-red, green, gold, black, and blue rules. Sūrah headings are set in illuminated panels of two distinct types. Verses are separated by gold stars within circles. Groups of five and ten verses are marked in the margins by ornaments, without inscription. Ḥizb and juzʾ are indicated in blue on the margins. On a few leaves, inscription in praise of the reading of the Qurʾān or of portions of it are written in small panels set at the outer edge of the frame (see fol. 3b-4a ; 12b-13a). The prayer and short treatise at the end of the copy are set within decorated panels surrounded by a large border (fol. 322a-324a). Gold-leaf edges.
• Origin: According to the end of the copy, copied by Shams al-Dīn ʻAbd Allāh (fol. 324a).

Binding note

Rebound by preservation office. According to Hitti, previously bound in leather with flap.

Provenance

Waqf seal on fol. 18b, 21a, 26a, etc., in the name of Shaykh al-Islām Walī al-Dīn Afandī Ibn al-marḥūm Ḥājj Muṣṭafá Āghā Ibn al-marḥūm Ḥājj Ḥusayn Āghā, dated 1175 H. [1761 or 2] (probably identical with Valiuddin Efendi mentioned in Sıcıll-ı ʻos̲mānī, vol. IV, p. 614). Acquired by Robert Garrett from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1159

OCLC

233823972

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