چكيده لاتين :
In addition to being an architectural museum from the Islamic era, the Sheikh Ahmad Jami collection in
Torbat Jam city has a rare and unique collection of Qur,ans that have not yet been studied. The opening pages
of these Qur,ans, with delicate decorations and page layout, are thought-provoking and worthy of study. In
order to investigate the principles of page layout and structural analysis of the opening pages and the endings
of the Qur,ans, the matching of size and dimensions, margins and text, distances and proportions and color
were studied, as well as the artistic aspects and structural system of the pages. The Qur,ans of the 8th to
the 13th centuries AH had unique features in terms of page layout and decorations, and in the discussed
Seljuk, Ilkhanid, Timurid, Safavid and Qajar periods, the page layout and decorations of the Qur,ans have
undergone changes. The objectives of the present research are: 1- Investigating the visual values of page
layout and decorations of the opening and ending pages of the preserved Qur,ans in Sheikh Ahmad Jami,s
collection 2- Adapting the page layout and decorations of these pages from the 8th to the 13th century AH.
The questions of this research are: 1. What are the characteristics of page arrangement and decorations of
the opening pages in Qur,ans preserved in this Museum from the 8th to the 13th century AH? 2. What are
the differences and commonalities in page arrangement and decorations of these Qur,ans? This research has
been done with a qualitative approach and a descriptive and analytical method. The statistical population of
the Qur,ans in Sheikh Ahmad Jami,s collection and the sampling method have been chosen purposefully
by selecting prominent cases and borderline and terminal cases. The findings show that in the opening
and completion of 10 examples of the studied Qur,ans, the Naskh and the Thuluth scripts are the most
frequently used scripts. The gilding and decoration in the early Qur,ans were primitive and simple; depicting
the use of geometrical principles. Over time, the gilding and decoration became advanced, complicated and
mixed with scripts. So, since the fifth century, the decorative Kufic script became popular in inscriptions, the
decorative elements of which are knotted representations and arabesque decorations. In the Seljuk period,
simple arabesque and limited colors, especially gold, were used in the decoration of pages. In the 7th and
8th centuries AH, with the advent of the Mongols and the Ilkhans, the style of writing and page layout of
the Qur,anic manuscripts became more complete. The dimensions of the central inscription are wider in the
5th and the 6th century Qur,ans, and in the following centuries, the inner or outer margins occupy the most
space of the page; which can be seen in most of the Qur,ans of the collection. The outer margin in most of
the studied Qur,ans, occupies a wider area comparatively. In more than 88% of the cases the Naskh script
has been used, while the rest represent the Muhaqqaq script. 38% of the Qur,anic manuscripts are written
by translators; mostly in Nastaliq. It was also found out that about 44% of the manuscripts have a seal of
recognition.
