[Koran]
Book
1650 - 1700 (published)
1650 - 1700 (published)
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471 leaves (4 blank) : ill. ; 31 x 20 cm.
Object details
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| Title | [Koran] (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Includes an elaborately illuminated double title-page; decorated chapter headings and rosettes; two full-page flower paintings (of a peony and a rose) on a gold ground at rear. Gold painted edges along the text block.
Sacred Book |
| Brief description | Koran (manuscript codex). Written in black thuluth script (previously identified as naskhi), 11 lines per page. Includes elaborately illuminated double title-page; decorated chapter headings and rosettes; two full page flower paintings (of a peony and a rose) on a gold ground at rear. Gold painted edges to text block. Binding of leather over pasteboard, gold block-stamped. May be by the son of Sultan Mehmet IV, who reigned as Sultan Mustafa II from 1695 to 1703. Signed by Mustafa, son of Mehmet. Inscribed on leaves 3 and 469v with identical royal waqf inscriptions, both badly rubbed, but apparently recording its donation to a religious order in 1061 [1657]. Previously believed to be Indian, first half of seventeenth century. |
| Physical description | 471 leaves (4 blank) : ill. ; 31 x 20 cm. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Gallery label | 2016-2018 Display: Amulets, Talismans and Fortune Telling in the Middle East
The Holy Text and Talismans:
The Arabic text of the Qur'an is sacred to Muslims. Many believe that an object inscribed with the word of God protects its owner and wards off evil. Small copies of the holy book were produced so they could be easily carried, and scrolls of Qur'anic text were rolled up and kept within amulet cases. This is still practised by some Muslims today.
Protective talismans could also be inscribed with quotes from the Qur'an, or decorated with astrological symbols, religious poems or images of the Prophet.
2. Qur'an
Turkey
1650-1700
Ink, colours and gold on paper; leather binding over pasteboard, tooled and gilded
Signed by Mustafa, son of Mehmet
Museum no. MSL/1890-9-23
(18/04/2018) |
| Object history | Inscribed on leaves 3 and 469v with identical royal waqf inscriptions, both badly rubbed, but apparently recording its donation to a religious order in 1061 [1657 CE]. |
| Other number | MSL/1890-9-23 - NAL accession number |
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| Library number | MSL/1890-9-23 |
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| Record created | March 31, 2016 |
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