Qur'anic verses (56:77-9) on carpet page, 14th-15th centuries, Calligraphy, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic, Washington (), Egypt, Arabic script calligraphy, Illuminated Islamic manuscripts, Islamic calligraphy, Islamic manuscripts, Thuluth, In the Thuluth script, typical of the Mamluk period (14th-15th centuries)., As noted in the red rectangular registers located at the top and bottom of this inscribed panel, this folio introduces the 26th part (juz') of the Qur'an (Selim 1979, 161). The central space includes an inscription containing verses 77-79 of Chapter 56 entitled Surat al-Waqi'ah (Th
Qur'anic verses (56:77-9) on carpet page, 14th-15th centuries, Calligraphy, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic, Washington (), Egypt, Arabic script calligraphy, Illuminated Islamic manuscripts, Islamic calligraphy, Islamic manuscripts, Thuluth, In the Thuluth script, typical of the Mamluk period (14th-15th centuries)., As noted in the red rectangular registers located at the top and bottom of this inscribed panel, this folio introduces the 26th part (juz') of the Qur'an (Selim 1979, 161). The central space includes an inscription containing verses 77-79 of Chapter 56 entitled Surat al-Waqi'ah (The Inevitable). These verses typically open the Qur'an as included on a double page illuminated frontispiece (see and R), although they may appear in decorated pages used to separate the parts (ajza') of the Qur'an. The verses here read:, Dimensions of Written Surface: Recto: (w) x (h) cm. Dimensions of Written Surface: Verso: 14 (w) x 21 (h) cm., Other extractive calligraphic techniques include procedures of paper cutting or deÌcoupage (Safwat 1996, 194), in which letter forms are cut out from a colored paper and pasted onto a differently-colored ground (see ). In both procedures, the basic principle consists in letting the background paper create the internal structure of the letters themselves. This demanding and precise work shows the various ways in which calligraphers could show their mastery of calligraphy through extractive, rather than additive, methods., That this is indeed a Glorious Qur'an / In a Well-Guarded Book, / Which none shall touch but those who are clean., The fragment's verso (see V) includes verses 1-3 of Chapter 46 of the Qur'an entitled Surat al-Ahqaf (The Winding Sand Tracts). The script of these pages is thuluth, a cursive script typical of the Mamluk period (14th-15th centuries) in Egypt. The background of spiral scrollwork used on this decorative page is also characteristic of Qur'ans of
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