Two leaves from an early Mamluk Qur'an, including the opening of surah Ibrahim (XIV), in Arabic, illuminated manuscript on paper [probably Egypt, fourteenth century] bifolium, single column, seven lines of bold naskh, surah heading in gold outlined in black, some diacritics in red, circular marginal devices to margin in gold with decorations in blue and black, verses marked with black floral devices heightened in gold, restored with gauze (probably early twentieth century), gold illumination also apparently retouched in places, leaves trimmed (affecting edges of marginal decorations), each leaf 286 by 185 mm. (written space 210 by 155 mm.); mounted This fragment comes from a lavish Qur'an produced at the height of the Mamluk dynasty, the point at which Islamic calligraphy first became an art form in itself. Such Qur'ans are often very simply decorated, with the exception of the opening two Surah, which focuses the readers’ attention on the text and on the raw, unadorned beauty and simplicity of the script itself.
Two leaves from an early Mamluk Qur'an, including the opening of surah Ibrahim (XIV), in Arabic, illuminated manuscript on paper [probably Egypt, fourteenth century] bifolium, single column, seven lines of bold naskh, surah heading in gold outlined in black, some diacritics in red, circular marginal devices to margin in gold with decorations in blue and black, verses marked with black floral devices heightened in gold, restored with gauze (probably early twentieth century), gold illumination also apparently retouched in places, leaves trimmed (affecting edges of marginal decorations), each leaf 286 by 185 mm. (written space 210 by 155 mm.); mounted This fragment comes from a lavish Qur'an produced at the height of the Mamluk dynasty, the point at which Islamic calligraphy first became an art form in itself. Such Qur'ans are often very simply decorated, with the exception of the opening two Surah, which focuses the readers’ attention on the text and on the raw, unadorned beauty and simplicity of the script itself.
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