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This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, inBaltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have beendigitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities,and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts atthe Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. Forfurther information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contactus through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Departmentof Manuscripts.

NOTE: The pages in this book are ordered from right to left. This means that to view the pages inorder, you should go the last page of the document and read what would be from “back-to-front”for a Western manuscript.

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fol. 331b:Title: Right side of an illuminated finispiece withinscribed prayerForm: FinispieceLabel: This richly decorated page contains a prayer tobe recited at the end of the Qur'anic text. The prayeris inscribed in the center medallion in white muḥaqqaqscript.Comment:

fol. 332b:Title: Right side of a double-page table of divination(bibliomancy or tafa'ul)Form: FinispieceLabel: This is the right side of a table of divination(bibliomancy or tafa'ul) executed in Arabic in tawqīʿscript and in Persian in nastaʿlīq script. The topinscription reads: fī al-tafa<ʾ>ul min kalām Allāh al-Majīd.Comment:

fol. 333a:Title: Left side of a double-page table of divination(bibliomancy or tafa'ul)Form: FinispieceLabel: This is the left side of a table of divination(bibliomancy or tafa'ul) executed in Arabic in tawqīʿscript and in Persian in nastaʿlīq script.Comment:

Binding The binding is not original.

Black leather (with flap); upper board with a central piecein the form of a diamond with pendants on four sides; innerboards, with traditional dentelle decoration, feature text fromthe "verse of the throne" (āyat al-kursī), 2:255-6, inscribedin the outer frame

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al-fātiḥah) inscribed in the center medallion in goldmuḥaqqaq script on a blue background.Comment:

fol. 3a:Title: Left side of a double-page opening inscribed withverses of chapter 1Form: Opening decorationText: Chapter 1 (Sūrat al-fātiḥah)Label: This is the left side of a double-page openingdecoration containing the text of chapter 1 (Sūratal-fātiḥah) inscribed in the center medallion in goldmuḥaqqaq script on a blue background.Comment:

fol. 3b:Title: Illuminated incipit page with headpieceForm: IncipitText: Chapter 2 (Sūrat al-baqarah)Label: This illuminated incipit page introduces chapter2 (Sūrat al-baqarah).Comment:

fol. 152b:Title: Illuminated page with verses from the end ofchapter 17Form: Illuminated page; chapter headingText: Chapter 17 (Sūrat Banī Isrāʾīl)Label: This illuminated page contains verses from theend of chapter 17 (Sūrat Banī Isrāʾīl) inscribed in thecenter medallion in white muḥaqqaq script.Comment:

fol. 153b:Title: Decorated incipit page with headpieceintroducing chapter 18Form: IncipitText: Chapter 18 (Sūrat al-kahf)Label: This is a decorated incipit page with anilluminated headpiece introducing chapter 18 (Sūrat al-kahf).Comment:

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Layout Columns: 1Ruled lines: 12Framing lines in green, orange, gold, black, sepia, and blue

Contents fols. 1b - 333a:Title: al-QurʾānText note: Text of Qur'an begins on fol. 2b and endson fol. 331a, followed by a prayer (duʿāʾ) to be recitedafter the Qur'anic text and a table of divination (taf'ul)in Arabic and Persian (fols. 332b-333a)Hand note: Written mainly in naskh script; muḥaqqaqscript in center medallions on fols. 2b-3a, 152b-153a,and 331b-332a; tawqīʿ script for chapter headings andother incidental inscriptionsDecoration note: Six pairs of decorated pages (fols.1b-2a, 2b-3a, 152b-153a, 331b-332a, and 332b-333a);two illuminated headpieces (fols. 3b and 154a);illuminated chapter headings; interlinear illumination;decorated borders; polychrome framing lines; marginaldecorations and verse markers

Decoration fol. 1b:Title: Right side of an illuminated double-pagefrontispieceForm: FrontispieceComment:

fol. 2a:Title: Left side of a double-page illuminatedfrontispieceForm: FrontispieceComment:

fol. 2b:Title: Right side of a double-page opening inscribedwith verses of chapter 1Form: Opening decorationText: Chapter 1 (Sūrat al-fātiḥah)Label: This is the right side of a double-page openingdecoration containing the text of chapter 1 (Sūrat

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Shelf mark Walters Art Museum Ms. W.569

Descriptive Title Koran

Text title al-QurʾānVernacular:

Note: Complete in one volume

Abstract This illuminated copy of the Qur'an was produced in theeleventh century AH / seventeenth CE in Iran. Apart fromusing a number of scripts, such as naskh, muḥaqqaq, andtawqīʿ, the manuscript features six pairs of decorated pages;two illuminated headpieces; and chapter headings, interlinearillumination, and marginal decoration. The Qur'anic textbegins on fol. 2b and ends on fol. 331a. It is followed bya prayer (duʿāʾ) and a table of divination (taf'ul) in Arabicand Persian (fols. 332b-333a).The black leather binding hasa central piece in the form of a diamond with pendants onfour sides. The inner boards, with their traditional dentelledecoration, feature text from the "verse of the throne" (āyatal-kursī), 2:255-6, which is inscribed in the outer frame.

Date 11th century AH / 17th CE

Origin Iran

Form Book

Genre Devotional

Genre Scriptural

Language The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic. Thesecondary language of this manuscript is Persian.

Support material Paper

Thick cream-colored, gold-flecked paper

Extent Foliation: i+333+i

Dimensions 25.5 cm wide by 38.5 cm high

Written surface 12.0 cm wide by 21.0 cm high

This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, inBaltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have beendigitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities,and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts atthe Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. Forfurther information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contactus through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Departmentof Manuscripts.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodePublished 2011

A digital facsimile of Walters Ms. W.569, KoranTitle: al-Qurʾān

Published by: The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201

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