Twenty-one leaves from a Qurʼan (MS M.712).

Title	Twenty-one leaves from a Qurʼan (MS M.712).
Publication Date:	Iraq, before 911
Publication Place	Iraq, before 911 -
Subject	Quran Manuscripts
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	21 leaves (9 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 230 x 320 mm
Library:	The Morgan Library & Museum
Library Asset ID	MS M.712
Record ID	77372
Library Location	Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Date	Iraq, before 911
Notes	Ms. written and illuminated before 911, possibly in Iraq. Texts: sura 27, al-Naml (the Ant), verses 56-83 (fol. 1v-5); sura 28, al-Qaṣaṣ (the Story), verse 28, to sura 29, al-ʻAnkabūt (the Spider), verse 12 (fol. 6-21). Fragments of this manuscript are preserved by the Chester Beatty Library (3 leaves); D. S. Rice ; the Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul (Topkapı Saraı Müzesi) (39 leaves); the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art, Istanbul (Türk ve Ịslâm Eserleri Müzesi) (1 leaf); and the National Museum, Damascus (Matḥaf Dimashq) (1 leaf). Decoration: written in black ink with short diagonal lines for diacriticals and vocalization indicated by red dots; a pyramid of six gold disks follows each verse; every fifth verse if followed by a gold letter hāʼ; every tenth verse is followed by a larger circular device with the cumulative verse count inscribed in the center and with a border in one of several forms: rinceaux, palmette, arcades; heading of sura 29 on fol. 19v is written in gold outlined in black, with a white contour line setting it off from the background; an undulating vine with gold palmettes fills the space above and below the writing, interstices painted in olive and tan.
Cilt	Formerly bound in 1940 in dark blue gold-tooled morocco by Marguerite Duprez Lahey; rebound by Deborah Evetts in full natural Irish linen in 1984.
Edinim bilgisi	Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1915.
Provenans	The manuscript in its entirety was donated by ʻAbd al-Munʻim ibn Aḥmad to the Great Mosque of Damascus (Jāmiʻ al-Umawī al-Kabīr) in the month of Dhū al-Qaʻda 298 (July 911); this particular fragment purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) from Professor R. Meyer Riefstahl (1880-1936) in 1915.
Yazı türü	Kufic

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Twenty-one leaves from a Qurʼan (MS M.712).

Publication Date Iraq, before 911

Publication Place Iraq, before 911 -

Subject Quran Manuscripts

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 21 leaves (9 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 230 x 320 mm

Library The Morgan Library & Museum

Library Asset ID MS M.712

Record ID 77372

Library Location Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Date Iraq, before 911

Notes Ms. written and illuminated before 911, possibly in Iraq. Texts: sura 27, al-Naml (the Ant), verses 56-83 (fol. 1v-5); sura 28, al-Qaṣaṣ (the Story), verse 28, to sura 29, al-ʻAnkabūt (the Spider), verse 12 (fol. 6-21). Fragments of this manuscript are preserved by the Chester Beatty Library (3 leaves); D. S. Rice ; the Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul (Topkapı Saraı Müzesi) (39 leaves); the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art, Istanbul (Türk ve Ịslâm Eserleri Müzesi) (1 leaf); and the National Museum, Damascus (Matḥaf Dimashq) (1 leaf). Decoration: written in black ink with short diagonal lines for diacriticals and vocalization indicated by red dots; a pyramid of six gold disks follows each verse; every fifth verse if followed by a gold letter hāʼ; every tenth verse is followed by a larger circular device with the cumulative verse count inscribed in the center and with a border in one of several forms: rinceaux, palmette, arcades; heading of sura 29 on fol. 19v is written in gold outlined in black, with a white contour line setting it off from the background; an undulating vine with gold palmettes fills the space above and below the writing, interstices painted in olive and tan.

Cilt Formerly bound in 1940 in dark blue gold-tooled morocco by Marguerite Duprez Lahey; rebound by Deborah Evetts in full natural Irish linen in 1984.

Edinim bilgisi Purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) in 1915.

Provenans The manuscript in its entirety was donated by ʻAbd al-Munʻim ibn Aḥmad to the Great Mosque of Damascus (Jāmiʻ al-Umawī al-Kabīr) in the month of Dhū al-Qaʻda 298 (July 911); this particular fragment purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) from Professor R. Meyer Riefstahl (1880-1936) in 1915.

Yazı türü Kufic