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Part 28 of the 30-part Qur’an
(الجزء من مصحف ذو جزءا)

Title	Part 28 of the 30-part Qur’an
Title Original	الجزء من مصحف ذو جزءا
Publication Date:	AD 1198 – 1219
Publication Place	Northern Mesopotamia (the Jazira), Sinjar or Nisibin - Al-Khalili Family Trust - Nasser D. Collection. Al-Khalili Islamic Art
Subject	Ink, gold and opaque watercolor on paper, yellow silk-backed and edged pages, bound with lacquer covers.
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	50 صفحة ، 22 × 15.6 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	QUR 497
Record ID	object;EPM;uk;Mus21;15;ar
Library Location	Al-Khalili Family Trust - Nasser D. Collection. Al-Khalili Islamic Art
Date	AD 1198 – 1219
Notes	Four parts of this Qur’an remain, but this is the only part that has a certificate of authenticity and was found during the restoration work carried out on the manuscript since it entered the collection. It was covered with red paint and hidden under a piece of paper. It records that the Qur’an was copied for the treasury library of the Zengid prince Qutb al-Din Abd al-Muzaffar Muhammad Ibn Zengi Ibn Mawdud Ibn Zengi, who ruled Sinjar, Khabur and Nisibis in northern Mesopotamia between 1198 and 1219 AD. The text was copied in golden thuluth script surrounded by black, which is the most unusual in Qur’anic manuscripts. The two-page frontispiece is gilded with gold, blue and white gemstones. The use of gemstone blue is the most expensive of the dyes in the Middle Ages, and it became a standard thing in gilding the Qur’an. The use of diluted, semi-transparent red to raise the level of gold became a feature of gilding in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in Mamluk Egypt and Syria.
Sample Text	“Part 28 of the 30-part Qur’an” in Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;uk;Mus21;15;ar
Bu sayfanın künyesi	MWNF Working Number: UK1 15
Seçili bibliyografya	James, D.,The Master Scribes. Qur’ans of the 10th to 14th Centuries AD, London: The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, volume 2, 1992, cat.7, pp.44–9.Rogers, J.M.,The Arts of Islam. Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, London: Thames & Hudson, 2010: no.67, p.79.

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Part 28 of the 30-part Qur’an

(الجزء من مصحف ذو جزءا)

Publication Date AD 1198 – 1219

Publication Place Northern Mesopotamia (the Jazira), Sinjar or Nisibin - Al-Khalili Family Trust - Nasser D. Collection. Al-Khalili Islamic Art

Subject Ink, gold and opaque watercolor on paper, yellow silk-backed and edged pages, bound with lacquer covers.

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 50 صفحة ، 22 × 15.6 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID QUR 497

Record ID object;EPM;uk;Mus21;15;ar

Library Location Al-Khalili Family Trust - Nasser D. Collection. Al-Khalili Islamic Art

Date AD 1198 – 1219

Notes Four parts of this Qur’an remain, but this is the only part that has a certificate of authenticity and was found during the restoration work carried out on the manuscript since it entered the collection. It was covered with red paint and hidden under a piece of paper. It records that the Qur’an was copied for the treasury library of the Zengid prince Qutb al-Din Abd al-Muzaffar Muhammad Ibn Zengi Ibn Mawdud Ibn Zengi, who ruled Sinjar, Khabur and Nisibis in northern Mesopotamia between 1198 and 1219 AD. The text was copied in golden thuluth script surrounded by black, which is the most unusual in Qur’anic manuscripts. The two-page frontispiece is gilded with gold, blue and white gemstones. The use of gemstone blue is the most expensive of the dyes in the Middle Ages, and it became a standard thing in gilding the Qur’an. The use of diluted, semi-transparent red to raise the level of gold became a feature of gilding in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in Mamluk Egypt and Syria.

Sample Text “Part 28 of the 30-part Qur’an” in Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;uk;Mus21;15;ar

Bu sayfanın künyesi MWNF Working Number: UK1 15

Seçili bibliyografya James, D.,The Master Scribes. Qur’ans of the 10th to 14th Centuries AD, London: The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, volume 2, 1992, cat.7, pp.44–9.Rogers, J.M.,The Arts of Islam. Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, London: Thames & Hudson, 2010: no.67, p.79.