Publication Date
The beginning of the eleventh century AD
Publication Place
North Africa -
Al-Khalili Family Trust - Nasser D. Collection. Al-Khalili Islamic Art
Subject
Black and red ink, colored and silver dyes on plain/undyed cotton, old repairs of green dyed cotton exist
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
45 ×30 سم
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID
KFQ 94
Record ID
object;EPM;uk;Mus21;7;ar
Library Location
Al-Khalili Family Trust - Nasser D. Collection. Al-Khalili Islamic Art
Date
The beginning of the eleventh century AD
Notes
This double page is one of the largest surviving copies of the Qur’an from the Islamic Middle Ages. The text consists of verses from Surah “Sheba” (No. 34), the middle of verse 22 - the middle of verse 28, which are copied in your beautiful handwriting, and there are five lines on each page. The text is similar to that of the famous Qur’an known as the Qur’an of Al-Hadhana, which was sponsored by the former governess of the ruler of Tunisia, Al-Muizz Ayn Badis, in the year 410 AH (1019-20 AD) and was probably written in Kairouan in the workshop of the calligrapher Ali Ibn Ahmad Al-Warraq. The parts of the ascending letters here are long and without dotting, and some of the ends of the letters are in the form of large angles, producing a satisfactory balance of shapes from both the horizontal and vertical directions. Like Ali Ayn Ahmad al-Warraq, the writer of this double page may have received his training in Baghdad, as the letters appear to be from Qur’ans with a similar history from the Mesopotamian region and Iran.
Sample Text
“A double page of a vertical Qur’an” in Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;uk;Mus21;7;ar
Bu sayfanın künyesi
MWNF Working Number: UK1 07
Seçili bibliyografya
Rogers, J.M.,The Arts of Islam. Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, London: Thames & Hudson, 2010: no.55, pp.66–7.
