Koran, Walters Art Museum, MS. W.575

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This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, inBaltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have beendigitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities,and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts atthe Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. Forfurther information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contactus through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Departmentof 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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fol. 183b:Title: Text page of chapter 114Form: Text pageText: Chapter 114 (Sūrat al-nās)Label: The text is written in a vocalized naskh script inblack ink with reading marks in red. Illuminated discswith colored dots separate the verses.

Binding The binding is not original.

Contemporary with manuscript; lacquer binding with floraldesign on red ground (no flap); damaged with much loss;pastedowns of marbled paper

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Written surface 4.0 cm wide by 7.0 cm high

Layout Columns: 1Ruled lines: 23Framing lines in black and gold; one frame around text plusan outer frame

Contents fols. 1b - 183b:Title: al-QurʾānHand note: Written in small vocalized naskh script inblack for main text; chapter headings in red or blue riqāʿscript on gold background; reading marks in red; textdivision (ḥizb, juzʾ, and niṣf al-juzʾ) indicated in wordsin red riqāʿ scriptDecoration note: Illuminated double-page incipit (fols.2b-3a); inner and outer framing lines in gold and black;illuminated discs with central red dots as verse markers

Decoration Upper board outside:Title: Lacquer bindingForm: BindingLabel: This nineteenth-century lacquer binding has afloral composition on a red field.

fol. 2b:Title: Right side of illuminated double-page incipitForm: IncipitText: Chapter 1 (Sūrat al-fātiḥah)Label: This is the right side of an illuminated double-page incipit. It is inscribed with the name of chapter 1(Sūrat al-fātiḥah) and the phrase: lā yamassuhu illá al-muṭahharūn (only the ritually pure should touch it).

fol. 5a:Title: Text page of chapter 2Form: Text pageText: Chapter 2 (Sūrat al-baqarah)Label: The text is written in a vocalized naskh script inblack ink with reading marks in red. Illuminated discswith colored dots separate the verses.

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Shelf mark Walters Art Museum Ms. W.575

Descriptive Title Koran

Text title al-QurʾānVernacular:

Abstract This small, illuminated single-volume copy of Qurʾan wasproduced in Iran in the thirteenth century AH / nineteenthCE. The manuscript opens with an illuminated double-pageincipit with the verses of chapter 1 (Sūrat al-fātiḥah) andthe initial verses of chapter 2 (Sūrat al-baqarah) decoratedwith interlinear illumination and framed by a polychromeborder and headpieces of floral design on a blue ground (fols.2b-3a). The text is written in a vocalized naskh script in blackwith reading marks in red and text divisions of sixty verses(ḥizb), thirty verses (juzʾ), and niṣf al-juzʾ inscribed in redin the margins. Illuminated discs with colored dots separatethe verses. Chapter headings are in red or blue riqāʿ script ona gold background. The nineteenth-century lacquer bindingwith floral composition on a red field is contemporary withthe manuscript.

Date 13th century AH / 19th CE

Origin Iran

Form Book

Genre Scriptural

Language The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.

Support material Paper

Laid paper

Extent Foliation: 184+1Extent should be 185; last leaf incorrectly treated as a flyleafin the foliation

Collation Catchwords: On versos

Dimensions 6.5 cm wide by 9.5 cm high

This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, inBaltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have beendigitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities,and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts atthe Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. Forfurther information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contactus through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Departmentof Manuscripts.

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

A digital facsimile of Walters Ms. W.575, KoranTitle: al-Qurʾān

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

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