Description
- Language(s)
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Arabic
- Published
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[Iran?], 1741.
- Summary
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Complete copy of the Qurʼān with interlinear Persian translation.
- Note
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Former shelfmark: MS X893.7 K84 I147.
Origin: Copy completed in Ramaḍān 1154 AH by Muḥammad Muḥsin al-Iṣfahānī (f. 392r), probably in Iran.
Shelfmark: MS Or 222.
Decoration: Double-page polychrome (chiefly blue, pink, red) and gold illuminated opening (f. 1v-2r). Illuminated sūrah headings in red ink on gold cartouche framed in many different polychrome patterns; marginal text division markers in gold pointed medallion shape with a blue finial surrounded by bright, multi-colored flames. Verse endings marked by four petal rosette with a green center, red and blue highlights. Textblock border-ruled in black, gold, blue; page-opening framed in a thin, gold rule. Lines of text are ruled in gold with the first letters of each line, and the central line of the page written in gold. Readings in red.
Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized with translation in nastaʻlīq in red ink; pointed. Central line of each page in muḥaqqaq in gold ink; pointed, vocalized.
Layout: 22 gold-ruled lines alternating full and half height with Arabic in the full height and Persian in the half-height. Central line of each page in gold display script.
Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left; sūrah title in red every recto, upper left.
Title from colophon (f. 392r).
Manuscript codex.
Customs stamp solar dated 1310/1932 (f. 1r, 392v). Owner's stamp in triplicate, possibly dated 1318/1900-01 (f. 392r).
- Physical Description
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iv, 392, iii leaves :
non-European laid paper, illuminations ;
242 x 152 (163 x 93) mm, bound to 248 x 160 mm
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