Two leaves from a Qurʼan.

Title	Two leaves from a Qurʼan.
Publication Date:	late 15th or 16th century.
Publication Place	late 15th or 16th century. -
Subject	Quran Manuscripts
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	2 conjoined leaves (5 lines) : vellum, ill. ; 270 x 230 mm
Library:	The Morgan Library & Museum
Library Asset ID	MS M.841.1-2
Record ID	77385
Library Location	Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Date	late 15th or 16th century.
Notes	Ms. leaves from a Qurʼan, written and decorated in the late 15th or 16th century, probably in the Maghrib. Text: sura 28, al-Qaṣaṣ (the Story), verses 71-76. Decoration: brown ink with vocalizations, including sukūns and tashdīds, in dull red and blue; each verse is followed by a large gold-bordered disk inscribed with the word āya in gold on a pale reddish brown ground; at a later time one of these disks was replaced with the letter hāʼ; the same letter in the form of a gold half-palmette occurs after verse 75; large marginal ornament on fol. 2v.
Edinim bilgisi	Gift of the Estate of Belle da Costa Greene, 1951.
Provenans	Belle da Costa Greene.

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Two leaves from a Qurʼan.

Publication Date late 15th or 16th century.

Publication Place late 15th or 16th century. -

Subject Quran Manuscripts

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 2 conjoined leaves (5 lines) : vellum, ill. ; 270 x 230 mm

Library The Morgan Library & Museum

Library Asset ID MS M.841.1-2

Record ID 77385

Library Location Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Date late 15th or 16th century.

Notes Ms. leaves from a Qurʼan, written and decorated in the late 15th or 16th century, probably in the Maghrib. Text: sura 28, al-Qaṣaṣ (the Story), verses 71-76. Decoration: brown ink with vocalizations, including sukūns and tashdīds, in dull red and blue; each verse is followed by a large gold-bordered disk inscribed with the word āya in gold on a pale reddish brown ground; at a later time one of these disks was replaced with the letter hāʼ; the same letter in the form of a gold half-palmette occurs after verse 75; large marginal ornament on fol. 2v.

Edinim bilgisi Gift of the Estate of Belle da Costa Greene, 1951.

Provenans Belle da Costa Greene.