Saint Louis University, VFL MS 024

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10017

Shelfmark:

VFL MS 024

Title:

Qur'an, single leaves

Place:

India

India TGN

Date:

17th-18th century

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Arabic and Persian

Arabic WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 3 single leaves : paper ; 485 x 320 mm.

Former Owner(s):

Fischmann, Milton, d. 1974

Milton Fischmann WIKIDATA

Fischmann, Gail

Gail Fischmann WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. leaves.
Layout: Written in 8 long lines of Arabic in large Bahari script on a gold-washed ground; Arabic text separated by narrow bands in burnished gold with interlinear Persian commentary in red; ruled lines in black, red, green, and blue, form a border around the text block; outer rulings in black, filled in with burnished gold and red. Catchwords in lower left margins on verso.
Script: Bahari, written in black ink; interlinear commentary is Nasta'liq, written in red; marginal annotations written in Shikasteh in black. Scripts identified by Robert Hillenbrand.
Decoration: Sura divisions marked by cartouches in gold on blue grounds with gold foliage, headings in red; verses marked with burnished gold disks; marginal medallions in gold with blue, red, and black; commentary in Persian written in red; marginal commentary written on the diagonal in black, one prayer added in red on fol. a, recto.
Origin: Written and illuminated in India, 17th-18th century; attribution made in consultation with Robert and Carole Hillenbrand.
Shelfmark: St. Louis, Saint Louis University, Pius XII Memorial Library, Special Collections, VFL MS 024.
Gift of Milton and Gail Fischmann, 1962.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

calligraphy (visual works)

Qur'ans

illuminated manuscripts

Arabic scripts

detached leaves

Qurʼan

Manuscripts, Arabic

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.slu.edu/record=b1977167

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/images_VFLMS024_44/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Saint Louis University