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Title

Koran

Other related names

• Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿUmar (محمد صالح بن عمر); ibn 'Umar states in the colophon (fol. 257b) that he was born in Kūmuljunah (Gümülcine, Komotini in northeastern Greece), resided in the Madrasat Mulāzimlar, in the vicinity of the Baths (Ḥammām Sulaymānīyah in al-Qusṭanṭinīyah [Istanbul]), and was a pupil of Amīn al-Bahjat (Behcet)., scribe
• Robert Fox, former owner

Call number

W.743
(Baltimore, Walters Art Museum)

Publisher

Walters Art Museum

Language

Arabic

Origin

Place

al-Qusṭanṭinīyah (Istanbul), Turkey

Summary

This illuminated copy of the Qur'an was written in naskh script in Istanbul (al-Qusṭanṭinīyah) in 1269 AH / 1853 CE by Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿUmar, a pupil of Amīn al-Bahjat (Behcet). According to the colophon (fol. 257b), the manuscript was finished in Ramaḍān 1269 AH / 1853 CE. The scribe states that he was born in Kūmuljunah (Gümülcine, Komotini in northeastern Greece) and resided in the Madrasat Mulāzimlar, in the vicinity of Ḥammām Sulaymānīyah in al-Qusṭanṭinīyah. The manuscript opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece of Sūrat al-fātiḥah and the beginning of Sūrat al-baqarah. There are two finispieces: a colophon (misbound at fol. 257b) and a final prayer (fol. 305a). Other illuminated elements include chapter headings and verse markers in the form of illuminated disks and rosettes.

Notes

• Codex misbound: Colophon on fol. 257b is followed by chapter 43 (Sūrat al-Zukhruf), verse 12, which should follow fol. 245b
   
• Laid European paper
   

Extent

5.5 cm wide by 10.0 cm high bound to 11.0 cm wide by 16.0 cm high

Foliation

i+305+i

Support

Paper

Binding

The binding is original; Black leather (no flap); Gold-painted borders and a floral design as a centerpiece

Layout

Columns: 1; Ruled lines: 15

Decoration

Double-page illuminated frontispiece; Illuminated colophon (fol. 257b); Illuminated final prayer (fol. 305a); Verse markers in the form of rosettes and disks; Marginal decorations; Chapter headings in white on a gold background; Reading marks in red

Script

Written in black vocalized Turkish naskh script with reading marks in red

Colophon

Fol. 257b: Transliteration: wa-bi-Allāh al-tawfīq /1/ katabahu al-faqīr al-ḥaqīr al-muḥtāj ilá raḥmat Rabbih al-Qadīr /2/ aḍʿaf al-khaṭṭāṭin al-maʿrūf bi-Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ bn ʿUmar /3/ mawlidhu maʿrūf fī Diyār al-Rūm bi-madīnat Kūmuljunah wa-maskanuhu /4/ bi-Madrasat Mulāzimlar fī qurb Ḥammām Sulaymānīyah fī al-Qusṭanṭinīyah /5/ wa-huwa min talāmīdh Amīn al-Bahjat wa-kāna taḥrīruhu maʿahu tisʿatan [sic] /6/ ghafara Allāh lahum wa-li-wālidayhim wa-li-man naẓara ilayhi wa-li-al-muʾminīn wa-al-muʾmināt /7/ wa-al-muslimīn wa-al-muslimāt al-aḥyāʾ minhum wa-al-amwāt /8/ bi-raḥmatika yā arḥam al-rāḥimin fī shahr Ramaḍān al-mubārak /9/ fī yawm al-ithnayn sanat tisʿ wa-sittīn wa-miʾatayn wa-alf min al-hijrah /10/ man lahu al-ʿizz wa-al-sharaf Allāhumma ṣalli ʿalá Muḥammad wa-<ā>lih ajmaʿin /11/

Provenance

• Walters Art Museum, Gift of Robert L. Fox, 1990.
   

Keywords

• Arabic
• Book
• Calligraphy
• Codex
• Illumination
• Islamic
• Koran
• Manuscript
• Ottoman
• Qur'an
• Scripture
• Turkey
• Turkish
• Walters Art Museum
• Contemporary Binding

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 1b — Chapter 1 (Sūrat al-fātiḥah)
• 2a — Chapter 2 (Sūrat al-baqarah)

Decorations

• 1b — Full-page illuminated frontispiece
• 2a — Full-page illuminated frontispiece
• 257b — Illuminated colophon
• 305a — Illuminated finispiece inscribed with a prayer to be recited after the last chapter of the Qur'an