The Ibn al-Bawwab Qur'an
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- Object no.:
- Is 1431
- Object name:
- Codex
- Title:
- The Ibn al-Bawwab Qur'an
- Calligrapher and production place:
- Ibn al-Bawwab
Baghdad
- Object category:
- Manuscript
- Collection:
- Islamic Collection
- Production date:
- 1000-1001 (391 AH)
- Dimensions:
- 183 mm x 145 mm x 58 mm (height x length x depth)
- Material:
- Paper (material) Pigment (material) Ink (material) Gold pigment
- Language:
- Arabic (language)
- Script type:
- Naskh script Rayhan script
- Description:
- Qur'an, bound codex, 282 paper folios, Arabic calligraphy and illumination, signed `Ali ibn Hilal and dated 391 AH (1000-1001), Baghdad, Iraq. The Ibn al-Bawwab Qur’an was produced in Baghdad in the year 1000. Both its calligraphy and illumination are the work of Abu’l Hasan `Ali ibn Hilal (d. 1022), more commonly known as Ibn al-Bawwab (meaning "son of the doorkeeper"). Ibn al-Bawwab is renowned as one of Islam’s greatest master-calligraphers, and this Qur’an is held to be the only genuine manuscript by him still in existence. It is also important for being one of the earliest Qur’ans copied on paper and one of the earliest written in a cursive script. In the year 1000, Baghdad was ruled nominally by the `Abbasid caliphs, who were in turn controlled by the Buyid dynasty. While this Qur'an is not documented as a royal commission, Ibn al-Bawwab had connections to the Buyid rulers: before coming to Baghdad, he had served as chief librarian for a Buyid amir's collection in Shiraz, Iran.
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