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Manuscript of the Qur’an, with lacquer binding
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The manuscript is composed of earlier text pages remounted on larger folios. The original text area is very small and copied in naskh script in black ink, 12 lines to a page. According to the colophon it was copied by Fathallah ibn Muhammad `Ali Isfahani on 25 Safar 1040 H (3 October 1630). These folios were later remounted on larger folios which are copied with Arabic commentary in a different hand. The name of this second scribe, Ibn Haji Mirza Muhammad Taqi Abd al-Husayn Isfahani, can be found in the margin of the colophon page along with the date 1273 (1856-7) and the patron Mirza Muhammad Zaki, Vazir of Isfahan. The lacquer binding on the outer covers, datable to c. 1850-75, is decorated with a large rose branch on a tan ground. The inner covers have floral arabesques on a red ground in the field and a framing border filled with arabesques.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
Ezzat-Malek Soudavar Geneva Switzerland (by 2014) by descent; to her son Abolala Soudavar Houston Texas (2014) gift; to Harvard Art Museums 2014.
Note:
Ezzat-Malek Soudavar (1913-2014) formed this collection over a period of sixty years. She purchased the works of art on the international art market.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of A. Soudavar in memory of his mother Ezzat-Malek Soudavar
Title: Manuscript of the Qur’an, with lacquer binding
Description:
The manuscript is composed of earlier text pages remounted on larger folios.
The original text area is very small and copied in naskh script in black ink, 12 lines to a page.
According to the colophon it was copied by Fathallah ibn Muhammad `Ali Isfahani on 25 Safar 1040 H (3 October 1630).
These folios were later remounted on larger folios which are copied with Arabic commentary in a different hand.
The name of this second scribe, Ibn Haji Mirza Muhammad Taqi Abd al-Husayn Isfahani, can be found in the margin of the colophon page along with the date 1273 (1856-7) and the patron Mirza Muhammad Zaki, Vazir of Isfahan.
The lacquer binding on the outer covers, datable to c.
1850-75, is decorated with a large rose branch on a tan ground.
The inner covers have floral arabesques on a red ground in the field and a framing border filled with arabesques.
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