Topkapı Scroll [SEP] collection
Topkapı Scroll
The Topkapı Scroll () is a Timurid dynasty pattern scroll in the collection of the Topkapı Palace museum.
The scroll is a valuable source of information, consisting of 114 patterns that may have been used both indirectly and directly by architects to create the tiling patterns in many mosques around the world, including the quasicrystal Girih tilings from Darb-e Imam.
Physical properties.
The Topkapı scroll is a wide scroll of in length, which is unrolled side to side. One end of the scroll is
the scroll was published with an extensive commentary, but it is now out of print.
History.
The Topkapı Scroll was presumably prepared in Iran during the Safavid dynasty in the end of the 15th century or beginning of the 16th century. A similarity between some of the patterns on the Topkapı Scroll and a tile panel in the Jame-e Kabir Mosque (grand mosque) in Yazd indicates that this scroll was created in Tabriz. On the other hand, it is possible that the scroll was made in Shiraz because