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The Qur’an of Sultan Bayezid
(مصحف السلطان بايزيد)

Title	The Qur’an of Sultan Bayezid
Title Original	مصحف السلطان بايزيد
Author	Amir Bayazid, son of Sultan Sulayman the Magnificent.
Publication Date:	964 / 1556
Publication Place	Istanbul or Kütahya, Turkey. - Islamic Museum, Al-Haram Al-Sharif
Subject	The Qur’an is made of paper written on with ink in different colors, including gold, and the cover is made of decorated leather.
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	الطول: 37.5 سم؛ العرض: 26.5 سم؛ السمك: 7 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	م/ ش/60 (6)
Record ID	object;ISL;pa;Mus01;35;ar
Library Location	Islamic Museum, Al-Haram Al-Sharif
Date	964 / 1556
Notes	The piece is a Qur’an with a cover made of two pages and a flap (the closing fold). A longitudinal medallion with a spiral circumference is engraved in the middle of each cover. Surrounding the bundle, in the four corners of the cover, are four bands that rotate with the corners of the cover. These strips are framed, close to the edges of the cover, by a wide frame inside which is confined a decoration in the form of cartouches. As for the cover flap decoration, it consists of half of the decorative units that appear on one of the two covers. It is noted that the decorations of all the bands of the cover, as well as the bundle, consist of gilded plant branches and flowers. As for the inner part of the cover, it is defined on its four sides by a golden spiral frame, followed from the inside by decorative forms in the form of cartouches surrounding a middle center, and the ground of these decorations took on a blue color. The endowment of the Qur’an is shown on page 1b. Folios 3b-4a form the front of the Qur’an, and it consists of two pages identical in decoration and calligraphy, forming the center of the book where they meet. The margins of the two pages are decorated with drawings of branches, plant flowers, and geometric lines, all of golden color. The margins are followed on the inside by decorative bands surrounding each page on three sides, decorated with opposing pyramidal shapes in gold and blue. These bands are separated from the written text by frames of successive colors, followed on the inside by bands decorated with decorations similar to those of the previous bands, but smaller in size. The text on these two pages was written in golden thalth script, six lines per page, and the lines were separated by drawings in the form of purple clouds. Each of the remaining pages of the Qur’an was divided into five rectangles. In the first, third and fifth rectangles, he wrote one line from the Holy Qur’an in the golden Rayhani script, and four lines in Naskh script in each of the second and fourth rectangles. Two longitudinal sections were cut from the sides of each of these rectangles and decorated with spiraling, golden floral designs. The location of the quincunx and tenth marks is indicated by an ornament in the margin in the form of a circular disc with a gilded circumference and a circle with a blue background in the middle. The names of the surahs, the number of their verses, and the place of their revelation were written in gold within a gilded frame with a blue background.
Sample Text	Khader Salameh “The Qur’an of Sultan Bayezid” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;pa;Mus01;35;ar
Bu sayfanın künyesi	Prepared by:Khader SALAMEHKhader Salameh has been the Director of the Islamic Museum and Al-Aqsa Library in Jerusalem for more than two decades. He was previously employed in the Hebrew University Library and worked as a librarian in Saudi Arabia and as a teacher in Libya. He is a Ph.D. Candidate in Ottoman History. He received a Certificate of Librarianship in 1986 from the Hebrew University. He obtained his BA degree from Beirut University in 1980. He catalogued the Manuscripts Collections of the Haram al-Sharif, which was published in six parts in several countries. His publications include many articles on different subjects and a recent publication in English and Arabic on the Qur'an manuscripts in the Islamic Museum.
Seçili bibliyografya	Farid, M.,Tarikh al-Daula al-'Aliya al-'Uthmaniya [History of the Ottoman Empire],Paris, 1981.Kalo, A.,Al-Sultan Sulayman al-Qanuni [Sultan Sulayman the Magnificent],Beirut, 1991.Nofal, N. A.,Kashaf al-Litham 'an Mahiya al-Hukuma wa al-Ihkam fi iqlimi Misr wa barr al-Sham [The Uncovering of the Veil from the Façade of Government and Rule in the Regions of Egypt and Syria],Tripoli, 1990.Salameh, K.,Al-Makhtutat al-Qur'aniya fi al-Muthaf al-Islamu fi al-Haram al-Sharif [Qur'anic Manuscripts in the Islamic Museum in al-Haram al-Sharif],Paris, 2003.

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The Qur’an of Sultan Bayezid

(مصحف السلطان بايزيد)

Author Amir Bayazid, son of Sultan Sulayman the Magnificent.

Publication Date 964 / 1556

Publication Place Istanbul or Kütahya, Turkey. - Islamic Museum, Al-Haram Al-Sharif

Subject The Qur’an is made of paper written on with ink in different colors, including gold, and the cover is made of decorated leather.

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions الطول: 37.5 سم؛ العرض: 26.5 سم؛ السمك: 7 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID م/ ش/60 (6)

Record ID object;ISL;pa;Mus01;35;ar

Library Location Islamic Museum, Al-Haram Al-Sharif

Date 964 / 1556

Notes The piece is a Qur’an with a cover made of two pages and a flap (the closing fold). A longitudinal medallion with a spiral circumference is engraved in the middle of each cover. Surrounding the bundle, in the four corners of the cover, are four bands that rotate with the corners of the cover. These strips are framed, close to the edges of the cover, by a wide frame inside which is confined a decoration in the form of cartouches. As for the cover flap decoration, it consists of half of the decorative units that appear on one of the two covers. It is noted that the decorations of all the bands of the cover, as well as the bundle, consist of gilded plant branches and flowers. As for the inner part of the cover, it is defined on its four sides by a golden spiral frame, followed from the inside by decorative forms in the form of cartouches surrounding a middle center, and the ground of these decorations took on a blue color. The endowment of the Qur’an is shown on page 1b. Folios 3b-4a form the front of the Qur’an, and it consists of two pages identical in decoration and calligraphy, forming the center of the book where they meet. The margins of the two pages are decorated with drawings of branches, plant flowers, and geometric lines, all of golden color. The margins are followed on the inside by decorative bands surrounding each page on three sides, decorated with opposing pyramidal shapes in gold and blue. These bands are separated from the written text by frames of successive colors, followed on the inside by bands decorated with decorations similar to those of the previous bands, but smaller in size. The text on these two pages was written in golden thalth script, six lines per page, and the lines were separated by drawings in the form of purple clouds. Each of the remaining pages of the Qur’an was divided into five rectangles. In the first, third and fifth rectangles, he wrote one line from the Holy Qur’an in the golden Rayhani script, and four lines in Naskh script in each of the second and fourth rectangles. Two longitudinal sections were cut from the sides of each of these rectangles and decorated with spiraling, golden floral designs. The location of the quincunx and tenth marks is indicated by an ornament in the margin in the form of a circular disc with a gilded circumference and a circle with a blue background in the middle. The names of the surahs, the number of their verses, and the place of their revelation were written in gold within a gilded frame with a blue background.

Sample Text Khader Salameh “The Qur’an of Sultan Bayezid” in Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;ISL;pa;Mus01;35;ar

Bu sayfanın künyesi Prepared by:Khader SALAMEHKhader Salameh has been the Director of the Islamic Museum and Al-Aqsa Library in Jerusalem for more than two decades. He was previously employed in the Hebrew University Library and worked as a librarian in Saudi Arabia and as a teacher in Libya. He is a Ph.D. Candidate in Ottoman History. He received a Certificate of Librarianship in 1986 from the Hebrew University. He obtained his BA degree from Beirut University in 1980. He catalogued the Manuscripts Collections of the Haram al-Sharif, which was published in six parts in several countries. His publications include many articles on different subjects and a recent publication in English and Arabic on the Qur'an manuscripts in the Islamic Museum.

Seçili bibliyografya Farid, M.,Tarikh al-Daula al-'Aliya al-'Uthmaniya [History of the Ottoman Empire],Paris, 1981.Kalo, A.,Al-Sultan Sulayman al-Qanuni [Sultan Sulayman the Magnificent],Beirut, 1991.Nofal, N. A.,Kashaf al-Litham 'an Mahiya al-Hukuma wa al-Ihkam fi iqlimi Misr wa barr al-Sham [The Uncovering of the Veil from the Façade of Government and Rule in the Regions of Egypt and Syria],Tripoli, 1990.Salameh, K.,Al-Makhtutat al-Qur'aniya fi al-Muthaf al-Islamu fi al-Haram al-Sharif [Qur'anic Manuscripts in the Islamic Museum in al-Haram al-Sharif],Paris, 2003.