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This illuminated copy of the Qur’an was excecuted in Shaʿbān 723 AH / 1323 CE by Mubārakshāh ibn Quṭb, honored with the epithet zarrīn qalam (golden pen). This manuscript, with a colophon signed and dated by Mubārakshāh (fol. 432a), was produced in Ilkhanid, Iran. The Qur'anic text is written in naskh script in black ink with chapter headings in gold tawqī‘ outlined in black. The Persian interlinear translation in red naskh likely belongs to a later stage of the manuscript's history, when it was rebound and furnished with new margins.
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodePublished 2009

The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles StreetBaltimore, Maryland

21201http://www.thewalters.org/

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This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters ArtMuseum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscriptsthat have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment forthe Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details aboutthe manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's websitewww.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Waltersmanuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message tobe directed to the Department of Manuscripts.

NOTE: The pages in this book are ordered from right to left. This means that to view the pages inorder, you should go the last page of the document and read what would be from “back-to-front”for a Western manuscript.

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Binding The binding is not original.

Probably tenth century AH / sixteenth CE; black goatskin(with flap); gold-tooled central lobed oval with pendantsand cornerpieces decorated with floral and vine motif; gold-tooled frame; doublures of brown leather with a lobed oval,pendants, and cornerpieces, all with filigree decoration on adark blue ground

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Decoration fol. 1b:Title: Right side of a double-page illuminatedfrontispieceForm: FrontispieceLabel: This double-page illuminated frontispiece iscomprised of two rectangles surrounded by a trefoilborder in grisaille. The inner border is gold strapworkwith blue squares. The central area is an intricate designof geometric forms and arabesques in blue, black, gold,and green.

fol. 2a:Title: Left side of a double-page illuminatedfrontispieceForm: FrontispieceLabel: This double-page illuminated frontispiece iscomprised of two rectangles surrounded by a trefoilborder in grisaille. The inner border is gold strapworkwith blue squares. The central area is an intricate designof geometric forms and arabesques in blue, black, gold,and green.

fol. 2b:Title: Incipit page for chapter 1 of the Qur'anForm: IncipitText: Surat al-fātihaLabel: This opening page is inscribed with the firstchapter of the Qur'an (Sūrat al-fātiḥah). The Qur'anictext is written in black naskh, and the Persian interlineartranslation is in red.

fol. 3a:Title: Initial verses of chapter 2 of the Qur'anForm: Text pageText: Sūrat al-baqarahLabel: This text page is the beginning of Sūrat al-baqarah. The black naskh is the Qur'anic text and thetext in red is the interlinear Persian translation.

Provenance

Acquisition Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

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Language The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic. Thesecondary language of this manuscript is Persian.

Colophon 432a:Transliteration: katabahu al-faqīru ilá Allāhi taʿālá /1/Mubākshāhu ibn Quṭbin ghafara Allāhu /2/ dhunūbahumāwa-satara ʿuyūbahumā fī Shaʿbāni /3/ sanata thalāth wa-ʿishrīna wa-sabʿa miʾatin /4/ ḥāmidan li-Llāhi taʿālá ʿalániʿamihi wa-muṣalliyan /5/ ʿalá nabīyihi Muḥammadin wa-ālihi al-ghurari al-kirāmi /6/ al-ṭayyibīna al-ṭāhirīna wa-musalliman taslīman /7/Comment: Gives the name of the calligrapher Mubākshāhibn Quṭb and the date of copying

Support material Paper

Dark cream laid Persian paper inlaid into later margins,probably in the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE

Extent Foliation: i+432+i

Collation Catchwords: None

Dimensions 13.5 cm wide by 18.5 cm high

Written surface 6.5 cm wide by 11.0 cm high

Layout Columns: 1Ruled lines: 13Framing lines in dark blue, black, and gold

Contents fols. 1b - 432a:Title: al-QurʾānHand note: Written in small naskh in black ink; sūrahheadings in gold tawqīʿ outlined in black; naskh in redink for interlinear Persian translationDecoration note: Double-page frontispiece (fols.1b-2a); double-page opening decoration (fols. 2b-3a);illuminated rosettes with colored dots for verse markers;frequent marginal medallions for verse counts of tenand textual dividers, such as juzʾ and rubʿ; polychromeframe

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Shelf mark Walters Art Museum Ms. W.559

Descriptive Title Koran

Text title al-QurʾānVernacular:

Abstract This illuminated copy of the Qur’an was excecuted inShaʿbān 723 AH / 1323 CE by Mubārakshāh ibn Quṭb,honored with the epithet zarrīn qalam (golden pen).Mubārakshāh ibn Quṭb was one of the six pupils of theillustrious calligrapher Yāqūt al-Mustaʿṣimī (d. 698 AH /1298 CE). This manuscript, with a colophon signed anddated by Mubārakshāh (fol. 432a), was produced in Ilkhanid,Iran. It opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece ofgeometric design painted in blue, black, gold, and green (fols.1b-2a). Additional ornamentation includes verse markers andtextual dividers. The Qur'anic text is written in naskh scriptin black ink with chapter headings in gold tawqī‘ outlinedin black. The Persian interlinear translation in red naskhlikely belongs to a later stage of the manuscript's history,when it was rebound and furnished with new margins. Theblack goatskin binding has a gold-tooled design of a centrallobed medallion, pendants, and cornerpieces with doubluresof brown leather and filigree decoration. It probably dates tothe tenth century AH / sixteenth CE.

Date Shaʿbān 723 AH / 1323 CE

Origin Iran

Scribe As-written name: Mubārakshāh ibn QuṭbName, in vernacular:

Note: Nicknamed zarrīn qalam (golden pen), Mubārakshāhwas one of the six pupils of the illustrious calligrapher Yāqūtal-Mustaʿṣimī (d. 698 AH / 1298 CE).

Form Book

Genre Scriptural

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This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters ArtMuseum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscriptsthat have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment forthe Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details aboutthe manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's websitewww.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Waltersmanuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message tobe directed to the Department of Manuscripts.

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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodePublished 2011

A digital facsimile of selections fromWalters Ms. W.559, KoranTitle: al-Qurʾān

Published by: The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201

http://www.thewalters.org/