First and last pages of a Qur’an with the stamp of Ziya’ al-Saltanah [II]
First and last pages of a Qur’an with the stamp of Ziya’ al-Saltanah [II], the daughter of Nasir al-Din Shah and wife of Sayyid Zayn al-ʻAbidin Imam Jumʻah. The Qur’an was gift-endowed in the female line in the family, provided that the person would accept reading it every day for the spiritual benefit of Ziya’ al-Saltanah’s mother, Nadim al-Saltanah. The date of the endowment is June 1, 1885. Her seal’s date is 1857 (perhaps her birth year). After Ziya’ al-Saltanah’s death, the Qur‘an was in the possession of her daughter-in-law, Aqdas al-Dawlah (a daughter of Muzaffar al-Din Shah) and then passed onto Quds al-Zaman Zahir (Aqdas al-Dawlah’s daughter), who possessed it at the time of our digitization.
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- Date 1 June 1885
- Collections Private Collection
- Repository Private Collection
- Restrictions No Restrictions
- Accessed 14 February 2012
- Last Edited 4 February 2013
- Record no. 1333A2
