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Two pages from an illuminated Qur'an manuscript
Mamluk period
mid-14th century
Object Place: Egypt
Medium/Technique
Ink, color and gold on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 75.5 x 47.7 cm (29 3/4 x 18 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number09.334.1-2
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAfrica and Oceania, Islamic Art
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
DescriptionTwo folios 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; chapter headings in gold, angular kufic script, set inside illuminated, horizontal bands. Cream-colored paper.
ProvenanceBy 1909, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1909, gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: August 26, 1909)