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Twenty-four pages from a Qur'an manuscript
Mamluk period
13th–14th century
Object Place: Egypt or Syria
Medium/Technique
Ink, color and gold on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 9 3/16 x 6 3/4 in. (23.3 x 17.2 cm)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number15.129
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
DescriptionTwenty-four folios from a dispersed copy of the Qur'an; each folio contains 7 lines of Arabic calligraphy in black naskh script with interlinear commentary in red; illuminated rosette verse markers with red and blue dots.
InscriptionsSūrah 67 [al-Mulk, "The Kingdom"], v. 9 to Sura 77 [al-Mursalāt, "The Loosed Ones"], v. 6
ProvenanceBy 1915, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1915, gift of Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: January 7, 1915)