Manuscript

Koran

Object Number:

NEP27

Current Location:

Collections storage

Culture:

Persian
Arabic

Provenience:

Iran
Kirman

Manufacture Location:

Cairo (uncertain)

Maker:

Mahmud Ben El-Husein

Period:

Seljuk

Date Made:

1164 AD

Early Date:

1164

Late Date:

1164

Section:

Near Eastern

Materials:

Paper
Ink
Leather

Iconography:

Koran

Description:

Made in Cairo (?) by Mahmud Ben El-Husein of Kirman, 1164 AD. In Persian with Arabic Commentary. Written in Naskhi. First two pages have Kufic script. 17 lines to a page. Richly, artistically decorated. Seven Unwans. Gold ruled margins and gold titles. Cream covered heavy paper. Black leather binding embossed with gold. Contents: Complete text of Koran written in black ink, Arabic commentary written in red ink. page. 2a-an inscription that this manuscript was "waqf" or the pious donation to a mosque by Amir Djawish. page. 212c and 213a-written and decorated by Mahmud ben Al-Husein, the calligrapher from Kirman, at the end of the month of Jumada the First, of the year 559 A.H. (April 25, 1164 AD) . 215 folios. Transcribed by Mahmud b. al-Husayn.

Credit Line:

Purchased from Dimitri Andalaft; subscription of Eldridge R. Johnson

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Toward a 'Biography' of a Manuscript: a project in the history of a book (22 Feb 2013)

4th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: Writing the East: History and New Technologies in the Study of Asian Manuscript Traditions (22 Oct 2011 - 22 Oct 2011)