Accession number:
MS W.51
Title:
[Qurʾan].
Created:
[Iran], 1785.
Binding:
19th-century (?) green block-stamped and lacquer-painted leather over pasteboard, red leather doublures, block-stamped and gold-painted, in stamped-paper-covered slipcase by JPW.
Credit:
Bequest of Julia Parker Wightman, 1994.
Description:
339 leaves (2 columns, 21 lines), bound : polished paper, ill. ; 234 x 138 mm.
Provenance:
Dealer's no. 521 pasted on front doublure; purchased by Julia Parker Wightman in 1942; JPW 2185; Julia Parker Wightman Bequest in 1994.
Notes:
Ms. koran; written and illuminated in Iran in 1785.
Decoration: 4 illuminated title pages with headpieces and ornamental border; 3 illuminated text pages with full illuminated border in floral motifs.
Colophon on fol. 174r; According to Anne Contedini (on April 11, 2001), date is 1032 = 1785.
Script:
nasta'līq
Language:
Persian and Arabic
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