The honorable papers decorated with gold water.. An exhibition of rare Qurans in Saudi Arabia (see photos)

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The King Abdulaziz Public Library in Riyadh will launch on Thursday, April 21st, an exhibition of rare Holy Qur’ans, which includes displaying rare collections of the Holy Qur’an, on the occasion of the library’s celebration of the World Heritage Day, which falls on the eighteenth of April of each year.

The King Abdulaziz Public Library acquires collections of the Noble Qur’an books, most of which were written between the tenth century to the thirteenth century AH, and it consists of (267) copies of the Qur’an.

The Museum Qur’ans (20 copies of the Qur’an) are among the most valuable possessions, including: a noble Qur’an in a roll with a length of 642.5 x 17.7 m, interspersed with the ayat al-Kursi and a piece of decoration in a hollow shape along the length of the roll. Two gilded frames and a copy of Fakhr Al-Din Al-Suhrawardi in 1284 AH.

Among the distinguished manuscripts that the library possesses: a noble Qur’an, located in (30) leaves, each two opposite pages being a complete part of the Noble Qur’an. The first folio was decorated with wonderful floral motifs using bright colors and gold water, and the rest of the pages were completely embossed and gilded, and the side frames contain colorful floral motifs. It was gilded and copied in the Naskh script in the year 1240 AH / 1824 AD.

Among the most prominent collections of the library: a complete Qur’an, from Surat Al-Fatihah to Surat Al-Nas, written in black ink with exact shape within tables in red and blue, written in the month of Ramadan 1025 AH 1616 AD, in Makkah Al-Mukarramah opposite the Kaaba, an interview on a copy written by the divine scholar Mullah Ali Al-Qari, who died 1014 AH .

As well as a complete Qur’an, from Surat Al-Fatihah to Surat Al-Nas, written with black ink adjusting the shape inside golden tables, and at the beginning of some of the surahs there are ornaments and floral and geometric motifs decorated with gold water and a number of coordination colors, written in the year 920 AH corresponding to 1514 AD, bound in leather decorated with compressed shapes.

Among the notable holdings are: a complete Qur’an, from Surat Al-Fatihah to Surat Al-Nas, written with black ink adjusting its shape inside tables colored in gold, green, red and blue, its first and last leaves decorated with its margins with plant motifs dyed with gold water, and inside the tables a cavity in the form of Islamic motifs, and the blue color is extracted Turquoise stone has given the decoration a beautiful luster.

Also, in the first indexing of the names of the surahs, they were written in an oblique in small squares of great beauty, by the calligrapher Muhammad Sharif Afshar in Jumada al-Ula in the year 1270 AH corresponding to 1853 AD.

This is one of the Sultanate manuscripts.

Which you write very carefully in a long time.

It was bound with waxed leather with kernels, and lime paper, extracted from rice husks, was applied;

To protect the papers from overlapping colors, the Qur’an is in pieces (25/40 cm) and the Qur’an is decorated with gold-coloured decorations in the form of miniatures and flowers that highlight the aesthetics of Islamic decoration. Its beginning consists of two opposite pages. Surat Al-Fatihah is on the right, then the beginning of Surat Al-Baqara on the left.

The Timbuktu Quran:

Among the copies of the Qur’an owned by the library: a noble Qur’an written in the thirteenth century AH in appreciation. It is a Timbuktu Qur’an characterized by its case in the form of a bag. The Qur’an was written on (light beige) cardboard in black bold font with separators of Qur’anic verses in a small brown circle and the formation of verses Putting punctuation marks in bright red.

The library also acquires another Qur’an (Timbukti), which has a folder and is completely similar to the previous one, except for the type of script written in it, which dates back to the thirteenth century AH.

The library also acquires a distinguished Noble Qur’an written in the thirteenth century AH in appreciation, with floral and geometric decorations with coloring and gilding between the surfaces with golden clouds, in the first of which is Surat Al-Fatihah divided into two parts. And beware, while the second page ends with the conclusion of Surat Al-Fatihah (Neither the wrath of them nor those who go astray) and the page cut out of the Qur’an (20/40 cm) and the large area of ​​the first two pages for decoration.

The colors of the decoration consist of: blue, red, white and gold, in the form of roses, small circles, and flowers close to miniatures, which were common in the thirteenth century AH and what belongs to the Arab and Islamic decorative arts in proportion to the Arabic letters. The Qur’an was written in Naskh script known for its extensions and clarity, Written in black with punctuation marks as well as in black.

Decorations and miniatures:

Among the library’s holdings are a number of Qurans written in the thirteenth century AH, one of which includes the wall and the book (Tafsir Jawahir al-Tafseer for the Prince’s Masterpiece), which includes the colors of gold, blue, red and green. , and the large rectangle includes page decorations.

The copies of the Qur’an owned by the library are all of the quality of cardboard, with a variety of sizes, and they are all written in black, with black or brown punctuation marks, with color decorations on each page representing the styles of Islamic art and Arab and Islamic miniatures that focus on recurring colors that always indicate To the world of flowers with their different colors and nature with its wide color richness.

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Among the noble copies of the Qur’an that the library possesses: a complete Qur’an, from Surat Al-Fatihah to Surat Al-Nas, written in black ink, gold water and turquoise water, and the words of God are set in the form within tables in several colors, and the first and last pages are more careful with geometric and plant shapes, gilded and frilled, and it is the royal copy, volume It is made of natural leather covered with wood, and some of its places have been carved, with vegetal shapes inside it, which have gone to give an aesthetic, and it also has a tongue.

Written in the tenth century AH (the 10th century AH) corresponding to the (16th century AD) the sixteenth century AD.

The collection of Qurans in the King Abdulaziz Public Library is characterized by a number of types that can be dealt with in several forms.

Either of the type of script, the region of its writing, the date of its copying, or its decoration. The collections of Qur’ans in the library are decorated with the preamble and the epilogue, in addition to the presence of early Andalusian and Moroccan Qur’ans written on square parchments.

In addition to the Indian Qurans with various floral motifs.

There are also samples of beautiful Chinese and Kashmiri Qurans, and some Mamluk models.

In terms of fonts, they range from the venerable (Kufic) script, the Naskh, the Thuluth, the Timbukti and the Late Sudanese.

As well as the lines of the Levant, Iraq, Egypt and Yemen.

And a number of Najd and Hijazi Qurans.

All of these models are represented in the collection of the King Abdulaziz Public Library, which indicates the richness of Islamic arts, and the addition of every Islamic nation with its artistic and color visions, decorations and culture in receiving and copying the Holy Qur’an.

The library abounds with many original holdings, and includes among its sides more than eight thousand manuscripts that varied between: the Qur’an and its sciences, the origins of religion, the Qur’an, the sciences of the Qur’an, hadith and its sciences, jurisprudence and its origins, the Prophet’s biography, preaching and guidance, Arabic language, history, philosophy and logic, pure sciences And applied, general knowledge, in addition to many paper and microfilm illustrations.

Through its cultural programs, it works to disseminate knowledge and contribute to supporting scientific research and preserving basic values ​​for advancement, including interest in, preservation and availability of heritage, and benefiting from information, media and communication technologies in introducing the richness of heritage and culture and the diversity of its contributions to the process of human development through various historical stages, which stresses the richness of heritage and culture. Arab and Islamic civilization and its great impact on world civilizations.

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