Single Volume Qur'an
Single Volume Qur'an

Image credit: The Khalili Collections

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This book represents the type of Qur'an manuscript produced for sophisticated metropolitan clients by Istanbul scribes of the later 17th and 18th centuries. The fine illumination, the work of an artist called Ibrahim Nazif, is matched by the excellent hand. Indeed, the scribe, who signed himself as Hafiz Mahmud Celâleddin, was recognized as one of the leading calligraphers of his age. The high regard in which this manuscript was held in the later 19th century is shown by the ownership inscription on folio 277b. This is in the name of Princess Nazima, a daughter of Sultan Abdülaziz (r.1861–1876).

The Khalili Collections

London

Title

Single Volume Qur'an

Date

13 Dhu'l-qa'dah 1192

Medium

ink, gold & opaque watercolour on paper; 19th-century dark-brown morocco binding & slip case, painted in tones of gold

Accession number

629

Work type

Drawing

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The Khalili Collections

London, Greater London England

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