(Q29113)
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American Type Founders Company. Typographic Library and Museum
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Qurʼan--Specimens
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17--?
18. century
1700
1799
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Extent: 1 online resource (6 + 303 foliated leaves + 5) : paper, illuminations
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Manuscript codex.
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Layout: 17 long lines with shortened sūrah titles every recto, upper left corner. Catchwords every verso, lower left. Textblock is border ruled and page-opening frame ruled.
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Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized.
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Decoration: Four sets of dual page illuminations with inner borders of pink and orange flowers and outer borders of gold and blue with blue finials (f. 1v-2r, 137v-138r, 302v-303r). Six sets of simpler dual page illuminations of gold foliate marginal fill with pink and orange flower text block border (f. 2v-3r, 51v-52r, 100v-101r, 181v-182r, 221v-222r, 257v-258r). Gold and blue illuminated...
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Origin: Item is undated, but likely produced in the 18th century, in Iran.
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Shelfmark: MS Or 319.
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2 February 2024
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2 February 2024
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