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Two parts of the 30-part Qur’an
(جزئين من مصحف ذو جزءا)

Title	Two parts of the 30-part Qur’an
Title Original	جزئين من مصحف ذو جزءا
Publication Date:	Late ninth century AD
Publication Place	North Africa or Egypt - Al-Khalili Family Trust - Nasser D. Collection. Al-Khalili Islamic Art
Subject	Ink, gold, silver and opaque watercolor on paper, mounted on card with framing bands of figured paper tape and text in thuluth and inscription
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	99 صفحة ، 20.6 × 28.2 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	QUR 372
Record ID	object;EPM;uk;Mus21;14;ar
Library Location	Al-Khalili Family Trust - Nasser D. Collection. Al-Khalili Islamic Art
Date	Late ninth century AD
Notes	The text consists of Surah Al-Baqarah, which is the second surah in the Qur’an, verses 142-252. The entire opening (pages 1b–2a) and conclusion (pages 97b–98a) are completely gilded. The various designs may have been inspired by very ancient mosaics still in use in the 8th century in Umayyad Syria and even longer in the Byzantine era. The text block takes into account the proportions of the golden section, ½(1+√5), which was discovered by the Pythagoreans and follows the principle of equiangular spirals and other basic geometric shapes. Muslim mathematicians and craftsmen were well acquainted with the principle, although there are few instances showing that it was considered an ideal of beauty in Islamic art. It has been used in other Qur’ans, most notably in a magnificent manuscript (now in the National Library in Paris) that was commissioned by Amajur, governor of Damascus, for the Grand Mosque in Tyre, Lebanon, in the year 262 AH (875-6 AD).
Sample Text	“Two parts of the 30-part Qur’an” within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;uk;Mus21;14;ar
Bu sayfanın künyesi	MWNF Working Number: UK1 14
Seçili bibliyografya	Déroche, F.,The Abbasid Tradition, London: The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, volume 1, 1992, cat.24, pp.72–5.Rogers, J.M.,The Arts of Islam. Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, London: Thames & Hudson, 2010: no.10, p.36.

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Two parts of the 30-part Qur’an

(جزئين من مصحف ذو جزءا)

Publication Date Late ninth century AD

Publication Place North Africa or Egypt - Al-Khalili Family Trust - Nasser D. Collection. Al-Khalili Islamic Art

Subject Ink, gold, silver and opaque watercolor on paper, mounted on card with framing bands of figured paper tape and text in thuluth and inscription

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 99 صفحة ، 20.6 × 28.2 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID QUR 372

Record ID object;EPM;uk;Mus21;14;ar

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

Date Late ninth century AD

Notes The text consists of Surah Al-Baqarah, which is the second surah in the Qur’an, verses 142-252. The entire opening (pages 1b–2a) and conclusion (pages 97b–98a) are completely gilded. The various designs may have been inspired by very ancient mosaics still in use in the 8th century in Umayyad Syria and even longer in the Byzantine era. The text block takes into account the proportions of the golden section, ½(1+√5), which was discovered by the Pythagoreans and follows the principle of equiangular spirals and other basic geometric shapes. Muslim mathematicians and craftsmen were well acquainted with the principle, although there are few instances showing that it was considered an ideal of beauty in Islamic art. It has been used in other Qur’ans, most notably in a magnificent manuscript (now in the National Library in Paris) that was commissioned by Amajur, governor of Damascus, for the Grand Mosque in Tyre, Lebanon, in the year 262 AH (875-6 AD).

Sample Text “Two parts of the 30-part Qur’an” within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;uk;Mus21;14;ar

Bu sayfanın künyesi MWNF Working Number: UK1 14

Seçili bibliyografya Déroche, F.,The Abbasid Tradition, London: The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, volume 1, 1992, cat.24, pp.72–5.Rogers, J.M.,The Arts of Islam. Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, London: Thames & Hudson, 2010: no.10, p.36.