SurvivesCompleteness unknownNot digitised
- Copyist
- Muhammad b. Muhammad al-Sharishi
- Illuminator
- His son-in-law Yusuf the illuminator; his father’s name has not been read in the colophon
- Made for
- Prince Abu Yaʿqub Yusuf, son and heir of the Caliph al-Nasir (r. 595–610 AH)
- Place
- Marrakesh
- Today
- Istanbul, Topkapı Palace Library, R. 33
- Format
- A single small oblong volume; 22.3 × 18 cm
A princely Qur’an whose colophon says it was made to celebrate the birth of Prince Abu Yaʿqub, son and heir of the Caliph al-Nasir, who succeeded his father and took the title al-Mustansir. The dedication is in Maghribi thuluth reserved on a ground of gold leaf, and its wording, “among what [the copyist] made... for [the prince]”, puts the copyist’s name before the prince’s. A copyist and an illuminator worked on it together, as in the Almoravid Qur’an in Munich.
Not digitised. Martin Lings published two of its pages in his book on Qur’anic calligraphy and illumination (1976); the images here are from Bongianino’s thesis (2017).
Close-ups of the script (2)Click to enlarge →
