A QURAN JUZ’ NINETEEN, RASULID YEMEN, 15TH CENTURY A QURAN JUZ’ NINETEEN, RASULID YEMEN, 15TH CENTURY A QURAN JUZ’ NINETEEN, RASULID YEMEN, 15TH CENTURY A QURAN JUZ’ NINETEEN, RASULID YEMEN, 15TH CENTURY

A QURAN JUZ’ NINETEEN, RASULID YEMEN, 15TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3003010

Arabic manuscript on buff paper, each folio with 6 lines of large flowing naskh, red diacritics, clusters of three gold dots marking verses, three surah headings in loose gold naskh, opening folio with gold and polychrome carpet page framing title, some staining to margins, in contemporary brown morocco stamped with elaborate cruciform motif, doublures stamped with central medallion within a calligraphic frame. Complete binding with flap. 13.5 by 18.5 cm.

With an endownment by Almahdi Ibn Izzuddin Ibn Emir Al Mu’Minin Al Hasan Ibn Emir Al Mu’Minin Izzuddin Al Ma’ayyad in 991 AH. One of the well known Zaydi scholars in Yemen and grandson of the imam Al Hasan B. Izzuddin.

The book cover, the composition of its decoration is arranged around a central quatrefoil. Four untooled fleur-de-lys rise from this quatrefoil to form a large lozenge or four-pointed star. The doublures of our manuscript are stamped with the repeated benedictory inscription al-’izz al-muqim al-da’im (‘lasting and perpetual glory’) which also appears on the binding of a Yemeni Quran dated to 1450-1500 in the Nasser D. Khalili Collection (David James, After Timur, Oxford, 1992, cat.11, pp.52-53)