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NOTE: The pages in this book are ordered from right to left. This means that to view the pages in order, you should go the last page of the document and read what would be from “back-to-front� for a Western manuscript.
This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.
The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode Published 2009
fol. 183b: Title: Text page of chapter 114 Form: Text page Text: Chapter 114 (Sﾅｫrat al-nﾄ《) Label: The text is written in a vocalized naskh script in black ink with reading marks in red. Illuminated discs with colored dots separate the verses. Binding
The binding is not original. Contemporary with manuscript; lacquer binding with floral design on red ground (no flap); damaged with much loss; pastedowns of marbled paper
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Written surface
4.0 cm wide by 7.0 cm high
Layout
Columns: 1 Ruled lines: 23 Framing lines in black and gold; one frame around text plus an outer frame
Contents
fols. 1b - 183b: Title: al-Qurʾān Hand note: Written in small vocalized naskh script in black for main text; chapter headings in red or blue riqāʿ script on gold background; reading marks in red; text division (ḥizb, juzʾ, and niṣf al-juzʾ) indicated in words in red riqāʿ script Decoration note: Illuminated double-page incipit (fols. 2b-3a); inner and outer framing lines in gold and black; illuminated discs with central red dots as verse markers
Decoration
Upper board outside: Title: Lacquer binding Form: Binding Label: This nineteenth-century lacquer binding has a floral composition on a red field. fol. 2b: Title: Right side of illuminated double-page incipit Form: Incipit Text: Chapter 1 (Sūrat al-fātiḥah) Label: This is the right side of an illuminated doublepage incipit. It is inscribed with the name of chapter 1 (Sūrat al-fātiḥah) and the phrase: lā yamassuhu illá almuṭahharūn (only the ritually pure should touch it). fol. 5a: Title: Text page of chapter 2 Form: Text page Text: Chapter 2 (Sūrat al-baqarah) Label: The text is written in a vocalized naskh script in black ink with reading marks in red. Illuminated discs with colored dots separate the verses.
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Shelf mark
Walters Art Museum Ms. W.575
Descriptive Title
Koran
Text title
al-Qurʾān Vernacular:
Abstract
This small, illuminated single-volume copy of Qurʾan was produced in Iran in the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE. The manuscript opens with an illuminated double-page incipit with the verses of chapter 1 (Sūrat al-fātiḥah) and the initial verses of chapter 2 (Sūrat al-baqarah) decorated with interlinear illumination and framed by a polychrome border and headpieces of floral design on a blue ground (fols. 2b-3a). The text is written in a vocalized naskh script in black with reading marks in red and text divisions of sixty verses (ḥizb), thirty verses (juzʾ), and niṣf al-juzʾ inscribed in red in the margins. Illuminated discs with colored dots separate the verses. Chapter headings are in red or blue riqāʿ script on a gold background. The nineteenth-century lacquer binding with floral composition on a red field is contemporary with the manuscript.
Date
13th century AH / 19th CE
Origin
Iran
Form
Book
Genre
Scriptural
Language
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.
Support material
Paper Laid paper
Extent
Foliation: 184+1 Extent should be 185; last leaf incorrectly treated as a flyleaf in the foliation
Collation
Catchwords: On versos
Dimensions
6.5 cm wide by 9.5 cm high
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This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.
A digital facsimile of Walters Ms. W.575, Koran Title: al-Qurﾊｾﾄ］
Published by: The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode Published 2011