Illuminated manuscripts
Subject
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Or Ms 149: القرآن al-Qur’ān, undated (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 149
Scope and Contents
A complete copy of a 30-leafed, or sī-varaqī, Qur'an. The sī-varaqī was a popular Qur'an manuscript format in South Asia from the seventeenth-century onwards.
The first two pages are richly illuminated with gold, and pages are gold-lined round the margins throughout. The periods are also gold-filled, and the binding includes gold-lined stamps.
Dates:
undated (extant by 18th cent. C.E.)
Or Ms 150: القرآن al-Qur’ān, 1135 A.H., 1722 C.E.
Item
Identifier: Or Ms 150
Scope and Contents
A complete copy of the Qur'an.There are inscriptions in the margins in Persian indicating the endings of a sūrah. The text of the Qur'an is preceded and followed by a short treatise of six folios on tajwīd (the correct recitation of the Qur'an), a sā‘at-nāmah (for consulting proper hours), and a twelve folio fāl-nāmah (containing rules for taking omens from the...
Dates:
1135 A.H.; 1722 C.E.