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| Title | Qur'an |
| Date-Created | 1501-1736 |
| Style/Period | Safavid (Iranian Islamic styles ) |
| Geographic region | Shīrāz (inhabited place); Iran (nation) |
| Language | Arabic |
| Medium/materials | leather; ink; tempera; gold |
| Dimensions | 347 leaves, 39.37 x 22.86 cm, 5.72 cm thick |
| Description | Donated by Frederick Binkerd Artz (1894-1983). 347 leaves. This attractive, large-size Qur’an with typical Shirazi floral illuminations is inscribed in an elegant naskh hand in black ink with use of red, and punctuation marks in gold. Chapter headings are inscribed in thuluth against multi-colored backgrounds with floral arabesques. The text is written on unpolished, thick, light cream color local paper with twelve lines on each page, except for the opening page, which has five lines. Some staining. |
| Information provider | Esra Akin-Kivanc, August 2012. |
| Digital Specifications | 300 ppi RGB tiff captured with Nikon D300 SLR digital camera, jp2 derivative of tiff image |
| Type | illuminated manuscripts |
| Repository | Oberlin College Library. Special Collections |
| Rights | Educational use only. Contact Oberlin College Library Special Collections ( http://oberlin.edu/library ) for further information |
| Notes | The incipit page begins with the first five verses of the Qur’an’s first surah (chapter), Al-Fatiha (The Opening). The text of the first surah is spread over the verso (back) side, oddly under the heading of the second surah, Al-Baqara (The Cow). Markers of various sizes and shapes indicate the sajdah, or, when to prostrate during the recitation of the Qur’an. A lengthy khatm prayer (supplication upon completion of the Qur’an from beginning to end) and a devotional table penned in large script are found on the closing folios. Lavish use of gold and intricate illumination on the pages suggest commission by a wealthy patron. The endpaper contains seven different notations by those who completed the Qur’an from beginning to end (khatm). Dates on these notations range from H. 1085 (1674-75 CE) to H. 1294 (1877-78 CE), making it possible to date this Qur’an to the early seventeenth century. One of the notations indicates the place of khatm as Iran. Typical Shirazi floral decorations of the book display striking similarity to the Qur’an of Ibrahim Sultan Shah Rukh (grandson of Timur, governor of Shiraz, 1415-35 CE), today housed at the Metropolitan Museum in New York (Accession number 13.228.1). |
| Indentifer | IMC0002 |
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