Illuminated leaf from a manuscript pocket Qur'an
- Title
- Illuminated leaf from a manuscript pocket Qur'an
- LC Subject
- Manuscripts Qurʼan--Manuscripts Illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens Manuscripts, Arabic Illumination of books and manuscripts
- Repository
- University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
- Alternative
- Qurʼan. Al-An'am. Arabic
- Description
- One leaf (two pages) from illuminated pocket Qur'an (manuscript) which includes the text from Surah VI (The Cattle). The folio encompasses the end of 6.33 and the entirety of 6.34-37: (33)but the unjust deny the communications of Allah. (34) And certainly apostles before you were rejected, but they were patient on being rejected and persecuted until Our help came to them; and there is none to change the words of Allah, and certainly there has come to you some information about the messengers. (35) And if their turning away is hard on you, then if you can seek an opening into the earth or a ladder to heaven so that you should bring them a sign and if Allah had pleased He would certainly have gathered them all on guidance, therefore be not ignorant. (36) Only those accept who listen; and the dead. Allah will raise them, then to Him they shall be returned. (37) And they say: Why has not a sign been sent down to him from his Lord? Say: Surely Allah is able to send down a sign but most of them do not know. Manuscript document. Title devised by cataloger. Date and place of production from bookdealer's description. Collation: Paper, single sheet, two pages. Origin: India. Layout: Single column of 13 lines. Lettering: Naskh script with Sura headings. Decoration: Text within borders ruled in black and gold; Sura headings in white ink on a ground of gold; verses separated by polychrome and gold medallions. Binding: Disbound.
- Provenance
- Purchase; Kelmscott Bookshop, Baltimore, MD; March, 2021.
- Work Type
- manuscripts (documents)
- Location
- India
- Date
- 1751/1752
- Identifier
- MS_136
- Item Locator
- MS 136
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Dc Rights Holder
- University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
- Use Restrictions
- Property rights reside with Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. All requests for permission to publish collection materials must be submitted to Special Collections & University Archives.
- Language
- Arabic
- Type
- Collection
- Format
- application/xml
- Material
- paper
- Set
- University of Oregon Special Collections Manuscripts and Rare Books
- Primary Set
- University of Oregon Special Collections Manuscripts and Rare Books
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Layout
- 1 unnumbered leaf : 167 x 100 mm
