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Walters Ms. W.743, Koran

This illuminated copy of the Qur'an was written in naskh script in Istanbul (al-Qusṭanṭinīyah) in 1269 AH / 1853 CE by Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿUmar, a pupil of Amīn al-Bahjat (Behcet). According to the colophon (fol. 257b), the manuscript was finished in Ramaḍān 1269 AH / 1853 CE. The scribe states that he was born in Kūmuljunah (Gümülcine, Komotini in northeastern Greece) and resided in the Madrasat Mulāzimlar, in the vicinity of Ḥammām Sulaymānīyah in al-Qusṭanṭinīyah. The manuscript opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece of Sūrat al-fātiḥah and the beginning of Sūrat al-baqarah. There are two finispieces: a colophon (misbound at fol. 257b) and a final prayer (fol. 305a). Other illuminated elements include chapter headings and verse markers in the form of illuminated disks and rosettes. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W743/description.html