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Page from an illuminated Qur'an manuscript
Mamluk period
mid-14th century
Object Place: Egypt
Medium/Technique
Ink, color and gold on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 75.6 x 50.2cm (29 3/4 x 19 3/4in.)
Framed: 104.1 x 78.7 cm (41 x 31 in.)
Framed: 104.1 x 78.7 cm (41 x 31 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number09.335
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAfrica and Oceania, Islamic Art
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
DescriptionSingle folio from a dispersed copy of a large-format Qur'an; 8 lines of Arabic calligraphy in muhaqqaq script; illuminated rosette verse markers with red and blue dots; illuminated marginal medallions; illuminated chapter headings in angular kufic script set in horizontal bands. Cream-colored paper.
InscriptionsSura 85 [al-Burūj, "The Constellations"], vv. 13-22 to Sura 86 [aṭ-Ṭāriq̈, "The Nigh-Star"], vv. 1-7.
ProvenanceDenman Waldo Ross Collection, August 26, 1909