Publication Date
c. 1175-1225
Type
Document
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
389 mm x 324 mm x 28 mm (height x width x depth)
Library
Chester Beatty
Record ID
Is 1487
Library Location
Islamic Collection
Date
c. 1175-1225
Notes
Juz' 7 of the Tarkān Khātun Qur'an. Codex, ink, colours and gold on paper, leather bookbinding with blind-tooling and gold detail, 109 folios, Arabic text in muhaqqaq script (thuluth and kufic for sura headings, thuluth in margin panels), with illuminated frontispiece (one half of a chahar-lawh double page, fol. 1r) and finispiece verse-markers and margin panels throughout, Juz’ 7 of the Qur'an (Sura 5:83 to 6:110), unsigned, northwestern Iran, c. 1175-1225, from a 30-volume set dedicated in 1288 by Qarākhiṭā’ī princess Bībī Tarkān in honour of her parents, Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad (d. 1257) and Qutlugh Tarkān Khātun (d. 1283), both rulers of Kerman.
Materyal
Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold
Nesne Adı
Codex, Qur'an
Yazı Tipi
Kufic script, Thuluth script, Muhaqqaq script
