Artist: Seyyid Ahmed B. Abdurrahman
Date: 1786
Size: 9 x 604 cm
Museum: Sadberk Hanım Museum (Istanbul, Turkey)
Technique: Leather
This Koran in scroll form opens with an illuminated frontispiece with lappets, decorated with hatayi blossoms on gold and lapis blue ground, and rosette flowers, gold branches and tiny gold leaves. The border is filled with gilded branches and leaves on a black ground. Saz leaves and hatayi blossoms form a cartouche at the top of the illuminated field. At the top of the serlevha illumination a flap of leather has been attached, the outer surface of which is decorated with leaves and flowers on gold branches on a cherry coloured ground. The scroll may have been produced in Iran or was perhaps copied in Istanbul and illuminated by an artist trained in Shiraz or Isfahan.Reference: Tanındı, Z., Harmony of Line and Colour, Illuminated Manuscripts Documents and Calligraphy in the Sadberk Hanım Museum Collection, Sadberk Hanım Museum Publication, İstanbul 2019, pp. 104,105.
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