A section (juz') of a Qur'an

Object Details

• Description

  Manuscript; a section of Qur'an; Sura al-Naml (the Ant) 27 and Sura al-Qasas (the Stories) 28; Arabic in black "eastern kufic (New Style)" script; vocalized in black, sukun in blue; 27 folios with a frontispiece (fol.1 verso, 2 recto) and an additional brocaded cloth-cover for protection; inscriptions and seals on the fly leaf and end leaf (fols.1 recto, 27 verso); standard page: one column, 4 lines of text.

  Binding: The manuscript is bound in brown leather with blind tooling; binding remounted with new spine.

• Inscriptions

  Fly leaf: Praise upon God, the creator of the best virtue, entered the property of a royal library.

  In the auspicious month of Ramadan, [?] became part of the library's property. Year 1474.

  The book was seen.

  The book was seen in [?] the month of Rajab, year [12?].

  End leaf: The book was seen in the property of the auspicious library of sarkar fayz asar in Ramadan [986?]. Entered the library.

• Provenance

  1970s

  Private collection, England, 1970s [1]

  1989

  Sale, Christie's, London, 1989 [2]

  From 1989 to 2001

  Mr. Hamid Atighetchi (Art and History Consultants), London, from 1989

  From 2001

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Mr. Hamid Atighetchi in 2001

  Notes:

  [1] According to Curatorial Note 4, Massumeh Farhad, December 5, 2001, in the object record.

  [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

  Mr. Hamid Atighetchi

• Origin

  Probably Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Manuscript

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1000s

• Name

  Atighetchi, Hamid

• Topic

  Art, Writing, Arts of the Islamic World, Sura 28, Qur'an, Sura 27

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Language

  Arabic language

• Object Type

  Manuscripts