Manuscript
Koran
NEP27.203
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iran | Kerman Province
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | NEP27.203 |
| Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
| Culture | Islamic | Arabic |
| Provenience | Iran | Kerman Province |
| Manufacture Location | Cairo (uncertain) |
| Creator | Mahmud Ben EL-Husein |
| Period | Seljuk |
| Date Made | 1164 CE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Paper | Ink |
| Iconography | Koran |
| Description | Complete text of Qur'an written in black ink, Arabic gloss written in red ink. Between the time of its copying and its donation as waqf (pious donation), found in the margins of folio 2a, by Am?r Ahmad J?w?sh (d. 1786) to the al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, the manuscript underwent many repairs and emandations. Geometrically elaborated double page finispiece (212c and 213a) bears inscription: written and decorated by Mahm?d ibn al-Husayn al- Kirm?n?, the scribe, at the end of the month of Jumada the First, of the year 559 A.H. (April 25, 1164 AD). 215 folios. |
| Height | 42.3 cm |
| Width | 29.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Dimitri Andalaft; subscription of Eldridge R. Johnson, 1919 |
| Other Number | 403r 404v - Other Number |
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