This calligraphic page from Walters manuscript W.672 contains verses from chapter 2 (Surat al-baqarah) 2:65-68 and is framed by an outer border of marbled paper.
This calligraphic page from Walters manuscript W.672 contains verses from chapter 4 (Surat al-nisa') 4:103-106 and is framed by an outer border of marbled paper.
This text page from Walters manuscript W.562 has lines of vocalized Muhaqqaq script with an illuminated chapter heading for chapter 113 (Surat al-falaq). The chapter heading is written in New Abbasid (Broken Cursive) style in gold ink on a blue ground with red arabesques.
This folio from Walters manuscript W.556 contains an illuminated tailpiece for chapter 37 (Surat al-saffat) that bears an inscription in Early Abbasid (Kufic) script.
This opening page from Walters manuscript W.559 is inscribed with the first sura of the Qur'an, Surat al-fatiha. The Qur'anic text is written in black naskh and the Persian interlinear translation is in red.
This text folio page from Walters manuscript W.559 is the beginning of Surat al-baqarah. The black Naskh is the Qur'anic text and the text in red is the interlinear Persian translation.
Text and sūra title rubricated; gold roundels at end of each verse; pages bordered in red, black, and gold; pp. 5-8 illuminated in colors with gold; roundels in margins indicate divisions of text into 30 equal sections.
ḥayātī wa-baʻd wafātī fī yad awlādī al-dhukūr wa-baʻd al-inqirāḍ fī yad aqrabāʼī min al-dhukūr....
Date, copyist's name, name of source of copy, and conditions of inheritance of this item in colophon (beg. p. 612): ḥarrarahu ... al-sayyid Muḥammad Amīn al-Ṣafwatī ibn Aḥmad bi-ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān Nān Zādah ... qad waqaʻa al-farāgh fī al-yawm al-ʻasharah min Jumāzī al-ākhir li-sanat thalāth wa-sabʻīn wa-miʼatayn wa-alf [i.e. 5 February 1857] ... qad waqaftu hādhā al-muṣḥaf al-sharīf ibtighāʼan li-mirḍāt Allāh taʻālá bi-sharṭ an yūjad wa-yuḥfaẓ fī yadī mā dumtu fī
Illuminated ʻunwān on pp. [1-2]; chapter headings in gold; gold and polychrome roundels mark end of each verse; 30 subsections indicated in margins in gold script; text enclosed in borders of red, blue, black, and gold; edges gilded in pattern of green and gold gilt.
al-shaykh nādahu fī baladat Brūsā....
Date suggested by researcher, 14 May 1980: "Dated as late 16th or 17th century. Colophon evidently copied verbatim from earlier copy: date, place, scribe, everything. By: Muhammad Isa Waley, Dept. of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books, British Library." Date of original copy, copyist's name, and provenance in colophon: qad waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr hādhā al-kalām al-qadīr fī yawm al-thulāthā min shuhūr sanat ithnay wa-ʻishrūn wa-sabaʻmiʾah [i.e. 1322 or 3] ... ʻan yad Muṣṭafá Dahdah
Illuminated ʻunwān on pp. [1-2]; chapter headings illuminated in gold and colored inks; gold dots mark verse endings; text enclosed in borders of gold and black; illuminated foliate roundels in margins mark tenths (ʻushr), thirtieths (juzʼ), sixtieths (ḥizb) of text, and prostrations (sajdah); edges gilt.
Date and copyist's name in colophon: sawwadahu aḍʻaf al-ʻibād wa-aḥqaruhum Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-mushtahir bi-Ḥātimī al-mansūb li-marḥūm wa-maghfūr Ṣadrī Aʻẓam Naṣūḥ Pāshā ... wa-waqaʻa al-farāgh min taḥrīr hādhihi al-muṣḥaf al-karīm fī sanat ithnayn wa-thalāthīn wa-alf fī shahr Jumādhī al-ākhir [i.e. April 1623].
Pp. [722-32]: prayers in Arabic and instructions in Turkish for the reading of the Qurʼān.
Illuminated ʻunwān on pp. [1-2]; chapter headings illuminated in blue and gold; gold dots mark verse endings; text enclosed in gold and black bordres; tenths (ʻushr), thirtieths (juzʾ), and sixtieths (ḥizb) of text, and prostrations (sajdah), indicated in margins in gold ink; edges patterned in green and gold gilt; binding stamped in gold.
Date, copyist's name, and provenance in colophon: katabahu Ḥafiẓ Muḥammad ibn Qāsim al-mushtahir bi-al-Imām ... wa-waqaʻa al-farāgh min al-khidmah bi-tanmīqihi ... fī Dār al-Fatḥ Qusṭanṭīnīyah ... fī shahr Rabīʻ al-awwal min sanat sabaʻ wa-thalāthīn wa-alf min al-hijrah al-nabawīyah [i.e. November-December 1627]....
Illuminated ʻunwān on pp. [1-2]; chapter headings in gold rectangles; verse endings marked by gold dots; text enclosed within foliate borders, mainly in gold; thirtieths (juzʾ), quarters (rubʻ), thirds (thulth) and halves (nuṣf) of text indicated in margins by gold foliate roundels; gold lines separate lines of text.
Date of 17th cent. from cataloging of William Hoyt Worrell, 1925.
Illumination on pp. [1-2]; chapter headings illuminated; gold dots and foliate flourishes mark verse and chapter endings; text enclosed in wide gold borders; illuminated marginal rosettes mark thirtieths with (juzʼ) and quarters within each juzʼ with "ḥizb"; gilder's name at bottom of p. [522]: dhahhabahu Bahāʼ al-Dīn bin Tawfīq; edges gilded with foliate patterns; green leather endpages painted with gold and silver sunburst designs; binding gold-stamped and painted in silver and gold foliate designs.
Date and copyist's name on p. [518] at opening of closing invocation: qad tasharrafa bi-kitābat hādhihi al-muṣḥaf al-sharīf ... Kathīr al-Masāwī al-Būrdūrī Nūrī Ḥāfiẓ ʻUthmān al-mushtahar bi-Qāyish Zādah ... li-sanat khams wa-thalāthamiʼah wa-alf.
