(Q44153)
Statements
Qurʼan
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Fischmann, Milton, d. 1974
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Fischmann, Gail
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Manuscripts--India--17th century
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Calligraphy--India--17th century
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Illuminated manuscripts--India--17th century
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Manuscripts--India--18th century
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Detached leaves--India--18th century
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Illuminated manuscripts--India--18th century
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Calligraphy--India--18th century
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Detached leaves--India--17th century
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Manuscripts, Arabic--Missouri--Saint Louis
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17th-18th century
17. century
18. century
1600
1799
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Extent: 3 single leaves : paper ; 485 x 320 mm.
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Ms. leaves.
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Layout: Written in 8 long lines of Arabic in large Bahari script on a gold-washed ground; Arabic text separated by narrow bands in burnished gold with interlinear Persian commentary in red; ruled lines in black, red, green, and blue, form a border around the text block; outer rulings in black, filled in with burnished gold and red. Catchwords in lower left margins on verso.
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Script: Bahari, written in black ink; interlinear commentary is Nasta'liq, written in red; marginal annotations written in Shikasteh in black. Scripts identified by Robert Hillenbrand.
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Decoration: Sura divisions marked by cartouches in gold on blue grounds with gold foliage, headings in red; verses marked with burnished gold disks; marginal medallions in gold with blue, red, and black; commentary in Persian written in red; marginal commentary written on the diagonal in black, one prayer added in red on fol. a, recto.
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Origin: Written and illuminated in India, 17th-18th century; attribution made in consultation with Robert and Carole Hillenbrand.
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Shelfmark: St. Louis, Saint Louis University, Pius XII Memorial Library, Special Collections, VFL MS 024.
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Gift of Milton and Gail Fischmann, 1962.
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23 July 2024
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23 July 2024
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