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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1985.267
Title
Manuscript of a Qur'an: Section (Juz') VIII
Classification
Manuscripts
Work Type
manuscript
Date
16th century
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Türkiye (Turkey)
Period
Ottoman period
Culture
Ottoman
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/215792

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Calligraphy; ink on paper, with morocco binding
Dimensions
30.5 x 20.3 x 1.3 cm (12 x 8 x 1/2 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Edwin Binney, 3rd Collection of Turkish Art at the Harvard Art Museums
Accession Year
1985
Object Number
1985.267
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This is a section from a part (juz VIII) of a Qur'an made up of 29 folios copied with 7 lines of vocalized muhaqqaq script on each page. The section contains the verses in sura 6 (An'am, The Cattle): 111-165 and sura 7 (A'raf, The Heights): 1-87. The only sura heading is written with gold letters in a frame outlined with blue lines. Its burgundy colored leather binding has been stamped with a central oval medallion and two pendants, and decorated with leaves and flowers on a scroll in a style typical of the 16th century Ottoman decorative repertoire. The flap also has a central medallion. The binding has been cut towards its spine possibly during a repair which has created an imbalanced appearance for the central medallion.

Publication History

  • Edwin Binney III, Turkish Treasures from the Collection of Edwin Binney, 3rd, exh. cat., Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR, 1979), page 162-163/figure 106

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