COPIED BY SAFI AL-DIN AL-QATA'I, BAGHDAD, RAJAB AH 713/OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1313 AD

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QUR'AN
Copied by Safi al-Din al-Qata'i, Baghdad, Rajab AH 713/October-November 1313 AD
Manuscript on paper, 295ff. with 13ll. of extremely elegant muhaqqaq , gold rosettes between verses, sura headings in gold within gold outlined panels issuing a small blue and gold palmette into the margin, gold and blue marginal roundels marking every fifth and tenth verse with verse count written in gold Eastern kufic, opening illuminated bifolio (first folio a replacement), first two suwar within gold outlined panels with titles written in white Eastern kufic within scrolling gold arabesques, final folio with colophon signed by Safi al-Din 'Abd al-Mum'in ibn 'Abd al-Haqq al-Qata'i al-Baghdadi in Rajab 713, restoration to edges of some folios, occasional lacunae with modern replacements, contemporary brown morocco binding with tooled medallion
Folio 9¼ x 6¾in. (23.5 x 17.5cm.)

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Safi al-Din 'Abd al-Mu'min ibn 'Abd al-Haqq al-Qata'i al-Baghdadi, the scribe of this Qur'an, lived from 658/1260 to 739/1338. He was a distinguished scholar of the time in Baghdad, and spent most of his life in that city. He was a professor of the Mujahidiyya madrassa in Baghdad and taught in all the Islamic sciences, being particularly known for his work on the laws of inheritance. He also wrote on history, fiqh, geography, architecture, engineering, astronomy and medicine. (Kahaleh, 'U.R.: Ma'jan al-mu'alifin, Beirut, 1957.) He is mentioned as having a very good hand and copied a lot of works on hadith, writing in a style known as al-khatt al-mansub (Ma'ruf, N.: 'Ulama al-Mustansariyya, Cairo, 1975, Vol.II (BL14561) No other Qur'ans in his hand are known. As a young contemporary of the great Yaqut al-Musta'simi, who died in around 697/1298, he was probably influenced by the great man.
This Qur'an is copied in an elegant hand with very good illumination typical of the period.