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Gwalior Qur'an is the earliest dated Qur'an which uses the Bihari script. The script is characterized by long horizontal lines, shorter vertical lines, and large spaces between words. The script was primarily seen in copies of the Qurâan. Unlike many other manuscripts in the Bihari script, the
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Gwalior Qurâan is currently composed of 550 folios, but it is estimated that the original volume had around 567 folios. The mushaf is currently measured to be 29 x 22 cm and the paper it was written on has a smooth and shiny finish. Most pages have thirteen lines of text except pages with
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Gwalior Qur'an features a section at the end of the manuscript for bibliomancy, or foretelling the future by interpreting parts of sacred text, known as a Qur'anic falnama. The Gwalior Qurâan is regarded as the earliest known mushaf with a falnama. It is located on the six pages following the
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script for sura headings. The use of these scripts shows the Ghurid influence in the style of the manuscript. In the margins of the manuscript, there are annotations with commentary on the reading or recitation of the Qurâan which are mostly written in red and blue ink, but with some which do use
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Sabrina
Alilouche and Ghazaleh Esmailpour Qouchani. âLes gloses marginales et le fÄlnÄma du Coran de Gwalior: tĂ©moignages des usages multiples du Coran dans lâInde des sultanats.â In Le Coran de Gwalior: polysĂ©mie dâun manuscrit Ă peintures, edited by Fabienne Dugast (Paris: Ăditions de Boccard,
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Alilouche and Ghazaleh Esmailpour Qouchani. âLes gloses marginales et le fÄlnÄma du Coran de Gwalior: tĂ©moignages des usages multiples du Coran dans lâInde des sultanats.â In Le Coran de Gwalior: polysĂ©mie dâun manuscrit Ă peintures, edited by Fabienne Dugast (Paris: Ăditions de Boccard,
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Alilouche and Ghazaleh Esmailpour Qouchani. âLes gloses marginales et le fÄlnÄma du Coran de Gwalior: tĂ©moignages des usages multiples du Coran dans lâInde des sultanats.â In Le Coran de Gwalior: polysĂ©mie dâun manuscrit Ă peintures, edited by Fabienne Dugast (Paris: Ăditions de Boccard,
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Gwalior manuscript uses not black ink, but instead blue, red, and gold ink in its main body of text. The main lines of Arabic text are neatly spaced and alternate between blue, red, and gold with a
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The falnama at the end of the manuscript contains a gridded chart which attributes each letter of the Arabic alphabet with a prediction for the future. To find the letter, the reader starts by performing ritual ablutions, called
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and copied by MahmĆ«d ShaâbÄn. Other than the information provided in the colophon, not much is known about the patronage or historical context surrounding the manuscript. According to
Persian chronicles of the sultans of the
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Alilouche and Ghazaleh Esmailpour Qouchani. âLes gloses marginales et le fÄlnÄma du Coran de Gwalior: tĂ©moignages des usages multiples du Coran dans lâInde des sultanats.â In
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EloĂŻse Brac de la PerriĂšre. âManuscripts in Bihari
Calligraphy: Preliminary Remarks on a Little-Known Corpus.â Muqarnas 33 (2016): 64-65. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26551682.
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elements, and geometric patterns. Before almost every juzâ (a division that is around one-thirtieth of the Qurâan) and four suwar, there are illuminated double
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Johanna Blayac. âContextualizing the Gwalior Qurâan: Notes on Muslim Military, Commercial and Mystical Routes in Gwalior and India before the 16th century.â In
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in modern-day India. The manuscript is notably the oldest known illuminated Qur'anic manuscript from the Delhi Sultanate and the oldest known example of the
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Along with the use of Bihari script for the main text, scripts common elsewhere in the Islamic world were incorporated, such as the
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Nourane Ben Azzouna. âThe Gwalior Qurâan: Archaeology of the Manuscript and of its Decoration. A preliminary study.â In
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Flood, Finbar Barry. âEclecticism and Regionalism: The Gwalior Qurâan and the Ghurid Legacy to Post Mongol Art.â In
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Flood, Finbar Barry. âEclecticism and Regionalism: The Gwalior Qurâan and the Ghurid Legacy to Post Mongol Art.â In
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