Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett Additional no. 1

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DS ID:

DS29215

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett Additional no. 1

Title:

al-Qurʾān. Sūrah 2:235-266 / القرآن. سورة 2:235-266

Qurʼan

Place:

between 8--? and 1511?

Date:

800-1511

ninth century (dates CE) AAT

tenth century (dates CE) AAT

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Arabic

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment and paper

Parchment AAT

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 14 leaves : parchment and paper ; 135 x 211 (71 x 128) mm. bound to 139 x 213 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Ms. erroneously foliated beginning on the second folio. Record follows erroneous foliation.
Physical description: 7 lines per page; written in early Abbasid script (style D.Va--see Déroche, F., The Abbasid tradition, no. 48) in brown-black ink on parchment. Vocalized with red and green dots. Red, green, and gold medallions mark every ten āyahs. On fol. 11a, about 1/3 of the parchment is missing along the outer edge and has been replaced by laid, Arabic paper. Parchment set within...
Decoration: Embellishments on both parchment and paper likely dating from the 16th century. Text has been decorated with gold ground containing a colored floral pattern. Surrounding border on paper consists of a gilt frame, a blue border with gilt flowers, red and green bands, and a floral outer border.
Origin: Original text likely from the 9th or 10th centuries (compare with Déroche, F., The Abbasid tradition, no. 48). Decoration likely added in the 16th century. Attributed to ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn on fol. 11b and 12a.
Note of presentation to Shāh Ismāʻīl Safavī by Ḥāfiẓ Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Ḥusayn Khān Sirāj al-Mulk, Minister of War, dated 917 H [1511 or 12] and accompanied by the donor's stamp (fol. 12a). Seal of Shāh Ismāʻīl Safavī accompanied by a note on fol. 11b, also dated 917 H. Three other seals on fol. 11a-11b. Purchased by Robert Garrett in 1928 (fol. ia).

Keyword:

illuminated manuscripts

Islamic Empire

Sixteenth century

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9930605533506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3be80b25-fc9c-495f-9b47-05dd9253a7a5/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University