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Part 15 of a 30-juz Qur’an copied by Yaqut al-Mustasimi
(الجزء من مصحف ذو جزءا منصوخ من قبل ياقوت المستعصمي)

Title	Part 15 of a 30-juz Qur’an copied by Yaqut al-Mustasimi
Title Original	الجزء من مصحف ذو جزءا منصوخ من قبل ياقوت المستعصمي
Publication Date:	Date: 681 AH / 1282 - 3 AD
Publication Place	Iraq, Baghdad - Al-Khalili Family Trust - Nasser D. Collection. Al-Khalili Islamic Art
Subject	Ilkhanid — Ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper; 16th-century Iranian stamped and gilded leather binding and flap, with paper-filigree doublures
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	24.5 × 17 سم ، 58 صفحة
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	QUR 29
Record ID	object;EPM;uk;Mus21;22;ar
Library Location	Al-Khalili Family Trust - Nasser D. Collection. Al-Khalili Islamic Art
Date	Date: 681 AH / 1282 - 3 AD
Notes	There are three other parts of the Qur’an that remain in various libraries, but this part is the only one that has preserved its original gilding. The frontispiece is decorated with a panel of intersecting rectangles and circles in gold, richly decorated with arabesques in black, blue, white and red. The opening and closing sections of the text have three lines per page. The title/beginning of Surat Al-Kahf (No. 18) is written in white calligraphy in a panel decorated with a palm leaf in the margin (page 34b), and the main text is in Muhaqqaq script. Page 58a bears the signature of the great Baghdadi calligrapher Yaqub Al-Mustasimi (died 1298 AD), who produced this formal form inherited from the classic Qur’anic layout known as the six pens. Through his teaching and the prominent students who followed him, his invention of the method The six pens were used in many parts of the Islamic world from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries.
Sample Text	“Part 15 of a 30-juz Qur’an copied by Yaqut Al-Mustasimi” in Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;uk;Mus21;22;ar
Bu sayfanın künyesi	MWNF Working Number: UK1 22
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.11, pp.60–67.Rogers, J.M.,The Arts of Islam. Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, London: Thames & Hudson, 2010: no.160, p.139.

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Part 15 of a 30-juz Qur’an copied by Yaqut al-Mustasimi

(الجزء من مصحف ذو جزءا منصوخ من قبل ياقوت المستعصمي)

Publication Date Date: 681 AH / 1282 - 3 AD

Publication Place Iraq, Baghdad - Al-Khalili Family Trust - Nasser D. Collection. Al-Khalili Islamic Art

Subject Ilkhanid — Ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper; 16th-century Iranian stamped and gilded leather binding and flap, with paper-filigree doublures

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 24.5 × 17 سم ، 58 صفحة

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID QUR 29

Record ID object;EPM;uk;Mus21;22;ar

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

Date Date: 681 AH / 1282 - 3 AD

Notes There are three other parts of the Qur’an that remain in various libraries, but this part is the only one that has preserved its original gilding. The frontispiece is decorated with a panel of intersecting rectangles and circles in gold, richly decorated with arabesques in black, blue, white and red. The opening and closing sections of the text have three lines per page. The title/beginning of Surat Al-Kahf (No. 18) is written in white calligraphy in a panel decorated with a palm leaf in the margin (page 34b), and the main text is in Muhaqqaq script. Page 58a bears the signature of the great Baghdadi calligrapher Yaqub Al-Mustasimi (died 1298 AD), who produced this formal form inherited from the classic Qur’anic layout known as the six pens. Through his teaching and the prominent students who followed him, his invention of the method The six pens were used in many parts of the Islamic world from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries.

Sample Text “Part 15 of a 30-juz Qur’an copied by Yaqut Al-Mustasimi” in Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;uk;Mus21;22;ar

Bu sayfanın künyesi MWNF Working Number: UK1 22

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.11, pp.60–67.Rogers, J.M.,The Arts of Islam. Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, London: Thames & Hudson, 2010: no.160, p.139.