File:Illuminated double-page. Zarin Qalam's Qur'an, 1186 (CBL Is 1438, ff.109b-110a).jpg

Original file (2,576 × 1,770 pixels, file size: 674 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Illuminated double-page. Zarin Qalam's Qur'an, 1186 (CBL Is 1438, ff.109b-110a)

Summary

edit
Artist
'Abd al-Rahman b. Abi Bakr b 'Abd al-Rahman al-Katib al-Maliki, called Zarin Qalam (Golden Pen)
Description
English: Double-page from the Qur'an copied by 'Abd al-Rahman b. Abi Bakr b 'Abd al-Rahman al-Katib al-Maliki, called Zarin Qalam (Golden Pen). The words "Al-Katib al-Maliki", "The Royal Scribe", imply that the calligrapher was the secretary or scribe of a Seljuk ruler. Each page of this manuscript has nineteen lines of text; the first, tenth, and nineteenth lines are written in script which resembles muhaqqaq (although with some features unkown to later forms of the script) and the two blocks sandwiched in between each comprise eight lines in rayhan (it also lacks some of the characteristic features of the rayhan used in later times, such as the spacious and upright quality and the flat dots. In some ways it looks like regular naskh). New chapter is introduced by the basmala in black kufic edged with gold. This spread marking the middle of the text also has elaborate decorative panels with Koranic passages at the top and bottom. Chapter 19:1-29. Iran, dated 3 August 1186 (15 Jumada I 582). Chester Beatty Library Is 1438, ff.109b-110a
Date 1186
date QS:P571,+1186-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
Is 1438, ff.109b-110a
References Sheila S. Blair, Islamic Calligraphy, 2008, pp. 217-219
Source/Photographer https://www-degruyter-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/document/doi/10.1515/9781474464475-010/html

Licensing

edit
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current20:25, 18 March 2022Thumbnail for version as of 20:25, 18 March 20222,576 × 1,770 (674 KB)Nous (talk | contribs)Uploaded a work by 'Abd al-Rahman b. Abi Bakr b 'Abd al-Rahman al-Katib al-Maliki, called Zarin Qalam (Golden Pen) from https://www-degruyter-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/document/doi/10.1515/9781474464475-010/html with UploadWizard

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file: