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Single Volume Qur'an
Single Volume Qur'an

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Unusually for a Mamluk Qur'an, the opening pages of each quarter (rub') of the text are illuminated. The most striking feature of these illuminated pages is their beautifully drawn spiral split-palmette scrolls on a ground of fine reddish-brown hachuring, which is broken to reveal the words in 'clouds'. They are arranged as panels, with illuminated head- and footpieces and borders of elaborate gold plaiting and marginal hasps outlined in blue. The copyist, Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Maydumi, may have also been responsible for the illumination. The volume was endowed upon the mosque built by Sayf al-Din Qusun al-Nasiri, an amir of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad, near the Bab Zuwaylah in Cairo, which was completed in 729–730 AH (1329–1330 AD).

The Khalili Collections

London

Title

Single Volume Qur'an

Date

Sha'ban 729

Medium

ink, gold & opaque watercolour on paper; modern facsimile binding

Accession number

616

Work type

Drawing

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The Khalili Collections

London, Greater London England

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