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Juz' 12 of the Sinjar Qur'an

Title	Juz' 12 of the Sinjar Qur'an
Publication Date:	1211 (607H)
Type	Document
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	219 mm x 169 mm x 14 mm (height x width x depth)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	Is 1448
Library Location	Islamic Collection
Date	1211 (607H)
Notes	Juz' 12 of the Sinjar Qur'an. Written out in gold thuluth script, this manuscript is from a thirty-volume set, now dispersed in worldwide collections. The twenty-eighth volume (in the Khalili Collection, London) includes a statement on the original commission: the set was produced in 1211 (607H), for the library of one of the last rulers of the Zangid dynasty Qutb al-Din Muhammad, in Sinjar (northern Iraq). Codex, ink, colours and gold on paper, tooled leather bookbinding, 51 folios, Arabic text in gold thuluth script, with headings in gold eastern kufic script, illuminated frontispiece (fol. 1r) and finispiece (fol. 52v), Juz' 12 of the Qur'an (Sura 11:6 to 12:52) from a thirty-volume set made for the library (khizāna) of Quṭb al-Dīn Abū al-Muẓaffar Muḥammad ibn Zangī ibn Mawdūd ibn Zangī ibn Aqsunqur (r. 1198-1219), Sinjar, Iraq, 1211.
Materyal	Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold
Nesne Adı	Codex, Qur'an
Yazı Tipi	Thuluth script, Eastern Kufic script

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Juz' 12 of the Sinjar Qur'an

Publication Date 1211 (607H)

Type Document

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 219 mm x 169 mm x 14 mm (height x width x depth)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID Is 1448

Library Location Islamic Collection

Date 1211 (607H)

Notes Juz' 12 of the Sinjar Qur'an. Written out in gold thuluth script, this manuscript is from a thirty-volume set, now dispersed in worldwide collections. The twenty-eighth volume (in the Khalili Collection, London) includes a statement on the original commission: the set was produced in 1211 (607H), for the library of one of the last rulers of the Zangid dynasty Qutb al-Din Muhammad, in Sinjar (northern Iraq). Codex, ink, colours and gold on paper, tooled leather bookbinding, 51 folios, Arabic text in gold thuluth script, with headings in gold eastern kufic script, illuminated frontispiece (fol. 1r) and finispiece (fol. 52v), Juz' 12 of the Qur'an (Sura 11:6 to 12:52) from a thirty-volume set made for the library (khizāna) of Quṭb al-Dīn Abū al-Muẓaffar Muḥammad ibn Zangī ibn Mawdūd ibn Zangī ibn Aqsunqur (r. 1198-1219), Sinjar, Iraq, 1211.

Materyal Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold

Nesne Adı Codex, Qur'an

Yazı Tipi Thuluth script, Eastern Kufic script