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| Keywords: Mubarakshah ibn Qutb - Qur'an - Walters W559 - Closed Top View A.jpg Walters manuscript W 559 is an illuminated copy of the Qur'an and was excecuted in Sha'ban 723 AH/AD 1323 by Mubarakshah ibn Qutb honored with the epithet zarrin qalam golden pen Mubarakshah ibn Qutb was one of the 6 pupils of the illustrious calligrapher Yaqut al-Musta'simi d 698 AH/AD 1298 This manuscript with a colophon signed and dated by Mubarakshah fol 432a was produced in Ilkhanid Iran It opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece of geometric design painted in blue black gold and green fols 1b-2a Additional ornamentation includes verse markers and textual dividers The Qur'anic text is written in Naskh script in black ink with chapter headings in gold Tawqi outlined in black The Persian interlinear translation in red Naskh likely belongs to a later stage of the manuscript's history when it was rebound and furnished with new margins The black goatskin binding has a gold-tooled design of a central lobed medallion pendants and cornerpieces with doublures of brown leather and filigree decoration It probably dates to the 10th century AH/AD 16th islamic 1323 723 ink and pigments on dark cream laid Persian paper covered with black goatskin decorated with gold with brown leather doublures Folio cm 18 5 13 5 accession number W 559 38669 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Illuminated Manuscripts Masterpieces in Miniature The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984-1985 Masterpieces of Ornament The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1988 Power of the Pen Islamic Calligraphy in the Fourteenth Century Arthur M Sackler Gallery Smithsonian Institution Washington D C 1995-1996 The Divine Word and Sacred Sites of Islam The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1997 Speaking the Word of God Illuminated Korans from the Walters Art Museum The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2007 place of origin Ilkhanid Iran Walters Art Museum license 3D Qur'an 14th century Walters MS 559 | ||||
