Accession number:
MS M.835
Title:
Turkish Qurʾan by Pashāzāde.
Created:
Turkey, probably Istanbul, 1832-1833.
Binding:
Formerly in original brown morocco with gilt decoration (binding preserved separately); rebound in 1982 in full green-dyed Irish linen by Deborah Evetts.
Credit:
Bequest of Belle da Costa Greene, 1950.
Description:
307 leaves (15 lines) : paper, ill. ; 158 x 95 mm
Provenance:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913; Belle da Costa Greene.
Notes:
Ms. Qurʾan; written and illuminated in Turkey, probably Istanbul, 1832-1833.
Scribe: ʻAlī al-Rushdī al-Asbārtavī, known as Pashāzāde, a student of al-Ḥājj Ḥāfīẓ Muṣṭafa Ḥelvī, known as Ḥelvajizāde.
Decoration: illuminated borders.
Script:
naskh
Language:
Arabic
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