Turkish Qurʾan by Pashāzāde.

Accession number: 
MS M.835
Title: 
Turkish Qurʾan by Pashāzāde.
Created: 
Turkey, probably Istanbul, 1832-1833.
Binding: 
Formerly in original brown morocco with gilt decoration (binding preserved separately); rebound in 1982 in full green-dyed Irish linen by Deborah Evetts.
Credit: 
Bequest of Belle da Costa Greene, 1950.
Description: 
307 leaves (15 lines) : paper, ill. ; 158 x 95 mm
Provenance: 
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913; Belle da Costa Greene.
Notes: 

Ms. Qurʾan; written and illuminated in Turkey, probably Istanbul, 1832-1833.
Scribe: ʻAlī al-Rushdī al-Asbārtavī, known as Pashāzāde, a student of al-Ḥājj Ḥāfīẓ Muṣṭafa Ḥelvī, known as Ḥelvajizāde.
Decoration: illuminated borders.

Script: 
naskh
Language: 
Arabic
Century: 
Classification: