Art of Bahari Quran Manuscripts from MJRL

Abstract

Islamic art, enjoying the fundamentals of religious intellectual in different forms, expresses the modes of its spiritual nature in Islamic civilizations as well as in Muslim art. Appearance of Quranic manuscript concepts in perspectives of Muslim arts in different creative periods. Multiplicity of artistic approaches in Islamic culture, through its exceptional element expressing the principles derived from the Allah’s words, leads to living Muslim artist for the establishment of masterpieces of Islamic art, the most glorious artistic reflections, that it has established at an extensive level which can be observed in book compositioning, illumination, embellishment and planning. This article discusses the illumination of Bahari Qur?anic manuscripts in the collection of Masvd Jhandher research library, privately run at the small town sardarpur Jhandher in tehsil mailsi, district vehari (Punjab, Pakistan). This paper compares the illuminative styles of the particular script comparing it with other contemporary to this calligraphy style, and the evolutionary phase of the calligraphy style and the paper used specially for these manuscripts. Bahari manuscripts are mostly written in the 14^th to 18^th century, lesser efforts are applied to adorn the manuscript but visually the script of the manuscript was composed and stylized in an expressive tone, as the illuminative elements are quite simpler than the later manuscripts.