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Two Folios from Öljeitü’s
Mosul Qur’an
Copied by ibn Zayd al-Husaini ‘Ali ibn Muhammad
Iraq (Mosul) A.H. 706–11/A.D. 1306–11
Ink and colors on paper, 5 lines of muhaqqaq script to
the page
The Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
(Is 1613.1, 1613.2)
cat. 65
© The Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
[click images for full object view]
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Originally commissioned in Mosul [Iraq] and known
as Öljeitü’s Mosul Qur’an, this spectacular,
large format thirty-part manuscript, now dispersed, was intended
for the sultan’s mausoleum in Sultaniyya [map]. |
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The superb gold muhaqqaq calligraphy
with black outlines demonstrates that Zayd al-Husaini (who is otherwise
unknown as a scribe) was an outstanding master of this style. |
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He probably stopped halfway to execute
the illuminations, and it took about six years, therefore, for the
manuscript to be completed.
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