[القرآن. سورة 36، 48، 56، 67، 78].

[al-Qurʾān. Sūrah 36, 48, 56, 67, 78].

Uniform title
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
  • Herat, [1568]
  • هراة، [1568]
Description
21 leaves : paper ; 241 x 161 (146 x 93) mm

Details

Subject(s)
Getty AAT genre
Restrictions note
Access limited: Material extremely fragile; Apply to curator of manuscripts.
Notes
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title supplied by cataloger.
  • Physical description: 9 lines per page; written in calligraphic naskh in black and gold on cream glazed, laid Arabic paper. Catchwords; vocalized. Text frames completely or partially detached; numerous paper repairs. Some damp staining and mild insect damage. In delicate condition due to detached frames.
  • Decoration: Well-executed illuminations. Illuminated ʻunwān in gold and color at the beginning of each sūrah, with the largest being the first headpiece on fol. 1b. Text layout: one line in large gold script, three lines in small black script flanked on either side by illuminations; pattern is repeated then ends with a line in large gold script. Text framed in blue and gold; text area written in black is gold-sprinkled. Medallions in margins indicate every fifth and tenth āyahs. Gold disks outlined in blue mark end of each āyah.
  • Origin: Last third of Ṣafar 976 H [August 1568], Herat, by Aḥmad ibn Niʻmat Allāh [fol. 21a].
Binding note
Loose in folder consisting of full black leather covers with gold-stamped central mandorla, pendants and cornerpieces; maroon leather doublures with cutout central mandorla, pendants and cornerpieces decorated with gold or black filligree; insect damage.
Language note
Arabic.
Provenance
Owner's note by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Mahdī ... al-Shāmī [fol. 1a]. Ex libris of A.S. Yahuda on inner front cover. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source acquisition
Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.
OCLC
840401657
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