Qur'an

Object Details

• Calligrapher

  Ahmad Sayri

• Description

  Manuscript; the Qur'an with selection of prayers and a falname; Arabic in black naskh script with white headings in illuminated cartouches in thuluth, muhaqqaq, and nasta'liq script; vocalized in black; 288 folios with 2 shamsa (1 verso, 2 recto) a frontispiece (2 verso, 3 recto), a sarlawh (3 verso), and 3 finispiece (287 verso, 288 recto/verso); inscriptions (fols. 12 recto, 204 recto); rosette verse markers; gold roundels; marginal medallions, inscribed marginal medallions containing the word "ashr" (ten) indicating the end of a tenth verse and the word "juz" (part); standard page: one column; 15 lines of text. Bound folios F1932.66-70 of the same manuscript are accessioned separately.

  Border: The manuscript is bound in modern red leather over paper-pasteboards.

• Inscriptions

  Fol. 12 recto, waqf Ghara Mustafa Pasha.

  "Endowments of Ghara Mustafa Pasha."

  Fol. 204 recto, waqf

  Fol. 204 recto, waqf

• Provenance

  To 1932

  Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962), New York to 1932 [1]

  From 1932

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Hagop Kevorkian, New York in 1932 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Object file, undated folder sheet note. See also Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts (October 22, 2016 to February 20, 2017)

  Arts of the Islamic World (May 3, 1998 to January 3, 2016)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962)

• Origin

  Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Manuscript

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Name

  Kevorkian, Hagop

• Topic

  S?afavid dynasty, 1501-1736, Art, Arts of the Islamic World, Illumination, Qur'an

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Language

  Nasta?li-q script, Naskh script, Thuluth script, Muhaqqaq script

• Object Type

  Manuscripts