Author
Written in the glorious Naskh script, approximately in the thirteenth century AH.
Author Original
كتب بخط النسخ المجود، في القرن الثالث عشر الهجري تقديرًا
Publication Date
Estimated in the thirteenth century AH.
Publication Place
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Written in the glorious Naskh script, approximately in the thirteenth century AH.
Subject
The Qur’an
Type
kitap
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
عدد الأوراق : ؛ عدد الأسطر : ؛ المقاس :
Library
King Fahd National Laibrary
Record ID
6a2934bc-6285-4769-aaf2-3c671aff1519
Library Location
King Fahad National Library
Date
Estimated in the thirteenth century AH.
Notes
A well-preserved copy. Its illuminator excelled in his art, and it required effort from him. He began it with two panels in which he wrote two supplications within a form decorated with intense floral and geometric decorations, dominated by gilding along with other colours. Then the paintings decorated with this intense pattern continued in Surat Al-Fatihah, the beginning of Surat Al-Baqarah, and at Surat Yunus, then Surat Al-Isra, then the poets, and the end of the Qur’an, and he concluded it with two panels containing two supplications. They are as short as what it began with. As for the rest of the pages of the Qur’an, they are no less good than the previous description, as we find in all the pages of the Qur’an two wide frames in which colorful floral drawings are drawn, and the between lines of writing are filled with gilding outlined with fine black fringes. As for the first, middle, and last line of each page, it was written on a gilded ground, surrounded by a blue frame. The illuminator did not content himself with drawing suns at each side or part, but rather created several colored shapes along the margin. And gilded, as for the names of the surah, they were written in blue ink on a gilded background, inside a rectangle marked in black with white dots...
