1985.210: Manuscript of the First Volume of the Sahih of Bukhari
Manuscripts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1985.210
- Title
- Manuscript of the First Volume of the Sahih of Bukhari
- Classification
- Manuscripts
- Work Type
- manuscript
- Date
- 1453
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East
- Period
- Ottoman period
- Culture
- Ottoman?
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/216242
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Illumination with text; ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper, with leather binding
- Dimensions
- 25.4 x 17.1 x 3 cm (10 x 6 3/4 x 1 3/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Sotheby's, London 6 July 1976], sold; to Edwin Binney, 3rd, 1976, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1985.
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
- 1985.210
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- This is an illuminated copy of the first volume of Bukhari's Sahih, one of the six canonical hadith collections of sunni Islam. The manuscript consists of 251 unpaginated folios. The ownership seal on the first folio has been scraped off. There is an illuminated roundel with four pendants on its axes at the beginning of the manuscript. However the name has been scraped off from its inscription. The text folios begin with a beautiful illuminated double page. The text is copied in muhaqqaq and rayhani scripts in 17 lines per page with black ink with section headings in gold. The colophon at the end of the text gives the date as 12 Dhul-hijja 857 (14 December 1453) and the name of the scribe which has been scraped off. There are some marginal notes and corrections on the text. The manuscript has a stamped leather binding with flap, but it has been rebound with European-style spine.
Publication History
- Edwin Binney III, Turkish Treasures from the Collection of Edwin Binney, 3rd, exh. cat., Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR, 1979), page 2/figure 1
Exhibition History
- The Edwin Binney 3rd Collection of Turkish Art at the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 05/16/1987 - 08/02/1987
Verification Level
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