Illuminations of Headings in the Quran with No 259 and 275 Fixtures in Kastamonu Sheikh Sa'ban-i Veli Foundation Museum

Abstract

Sheikh Sa'ban-i Veli Social Complex is located in the center of Kastamonu. The social complex was built by Suca Efendi, the teacher of Murad Ill. It consists of dervish lodge houses, a mosque, a tomb, a library and shadirvan. In 1261/1845, it was repaired by Kastamonu District Governor Salih Aga by order of Sultan Abdulmecid, its infrastructure was renewed and it was surrounded by an enclosing wall. The two mansions and the museum building in the middle of them are the work of Azdavayli Mahmut Pasha in 1318/1900. In the building used as a museum, personal belongings of Sheikh Sa'ban-i Veli, manuscripts belonging to calligraphers from Kastamonu, and handwritten works are exhibited. Among the manuscripts, there are also illuminated Mushaf-i sharifs belonging to certain periods. The manuscripts and the illuminated Qurans within these manuscripts are the leading application areas of illumination art, which is included in our. It has been seen that the manuscripts with inventory numbers 0259 and 0275, chosen as the research subject, are not the subject of a study in terms of the art of illumination of the Qur'an. For this reason, it is aimed to examine the headings of the works in terms of illumination art. The double full-page heading illuminations of two Mushafs, which are thought to belong to the 1847 and 1861, which constitute the subject of the study, examined period features, stylistic features, patterns, and motifs.