Accession number
MS M.835
Object title
Turkish Qurʼan by Pashāzāde.
Display Date
1832-1833.
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 line
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. Qurʼan; 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.
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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